EU May Block Music Labels' Download Sites

csmiller writes: "The BBC is reporting that the EU is (according to The Sunday Times) considering blocking music-labels setting up their own download sites, as 'Some politicians fear that the two services, Pressplay and MusicNet, would be anti-competitive and unfairly dominate the market.'" I wonder when the idea of a Neighborhood Cache will catch on -- it looks like large-scale digital trading will always be subject to this kind of interference.

Comments

Yawn - another Slasdot pro-piracy story

[Anonymous Coward]

[anticipating this stories comments turning to the usual Slashdot "I Want my MP3" drivel]

When will Slashdot's contributors stop viewing copyright theft as OK. Just because it's not software does not mean that it's OK to champion every attempt to rip off those musicians who don't want their works pirated on the web.

Napster and its progeny are not an expression of free choice - they're simply satisfying the craving amongst the blinkered Slashdot generation in the same way that copying tapes of Spectrum games satisfied saddoes in my distant youth.

By all means complain about dubious anti-copying schemes used on CD's, as these limit fair use of the product. But stop harping on about losing the ability to download hours of pirate music off the web.

Chris

RIAA hacking to put song files on your computer ?

[mat]

Will the RIIA propose an amendment in Europe allowing them to hack into computers in order to upload their copyrigthed files in your hard drive ?