Ian Clarke on Freenet

chisox writes "The Independent in London has an int erview with Ian Clarke, the man behind the Free Network Project. If you think Napster has the music industry worried, what until they see Freenet...Clarke's just quit his job in London and is heading for LA to start his own company, Upriser."

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Going after Napster and Freenet

[billcopc]

I just don't get it with these megacorporations. Why is everybody suing the makers of software, when it is the users that do "illegal" things ?

Suing Freenet's creator might be a way to threaten its future, but it's hardly logical when compared with other types of lawsuits. While we're at it, why not sue makers of baseball bats because their products _can_ be used to violently kill people ? Same difference.

Freenet and Napster weren't created to facilitate piracy, they were created to facilitate file distribution, just like CD-writers, zip drives, heck even modems themselves. Sue Panasonic because they make cd-writers.. sue them again for making walkmans that can play cd-r's..

All this lawsuit crap isn't helping anybody, not even the money whores behind them. It's just giving an extremely bad image to the RIAA/MPAA/whomever, they're spitting on their sources of income. Stupid megacorporations.

Re:Going after Napster and Freenet

[www.sorehands.com]

Tobacco is different.

They claimed that tobacco was not dangerous. Then when the warning labels had to be put on the package, they claimed, "The government made us do it, but there is no real proof to the danger. And of course it's not addictive"

But all the time they hid the proof that they did have.

ANd you obviously don't know the basis of the gun suit.

What about holding a virus writer liable for the virus that he/she writes? Do you feel that makers of SPAMming software that hijacks unauthorized computers to SPAM to be held liable?

Napter is different. They don't claim pirates can't use it. Nobody dies when Napster is properly used.