[MLB-WIRELESS] Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?

[evilbunny]

Hello Barry,

That kid has to be very brave or very stupid, unlike here, where
piracy is a civil offense it's criminal over in the US and blurting
that out in the paper's likely to get the RIAA getting the DPP onto
him...

As for stopping piracy, highly unlikely, just make people take other
options, I mean people have been taping movies in cinemas long before
you could download them off the net...

-- 
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Thursday, June 13, 2002, 4:05:47 PM, you wrote:

BP> And from Slashdot today, a small piece that hints that US cable Internet
BP> companies are introducing caps to help the RIAA et al happy by making things
BP> sucky for peer-to-peer.
BP> - Barry

BP> Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?
BP> Technology: NEWS ANALYSIS
BP> By Jane Black in New York
BP> Jon, a computer programmer, is exactly the kind of music lover the Recording
BP> Industry Association of America has in mind as it tries to shut down music
BP> file-swapping services such as KaZaA. He has downloaded about 5,000 songs
BP> off the Internet in the past two years. The vast majority, Jon concedes,
BP> were pirated copies, including the latest album from rapper Eminem.
BP> "I only do it because it's free," he says matter-of-factly. "I don't do it
BP> to sample new music before I buy, like Napster always used to say."
BP> http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/020612/tc200206121108_1.html



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