File-sharing, Digital Rights Management, Etc.

Posted by michael on Saturday March 2, 2002 @09:29AM from the another-brick-in-the-wall dept.

Politech has a couple of good articles on political developments in the post-Napster world. (That's almost a Katz phrase there, isn't it?) The folks behind Kazaa, when they're not busy spying on their userbase, took the time to write to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after a bashing they took a few weeks ago. Kazaa's new owners suggest a general royalty fee, perhaps similar to the recent webcasting fees, be put in place to compensate intellectual property holders for file-sharing. Meanwhile, the European Commission takes a look at digital rights management. Looks like Europe will get its own version of the SSSCA.

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Re:I hearby claim Slashdot for the Trolls. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-02 10:48 · Score: 0, Troll

There's absolutely no reason for anyone to read slashdot now that www.goatse.cx is back online. If you visit www.linux.com with a goatse window open, it's about equivalent to browsing slashdot at -1. If you minimize the goatse window, and bring up another linux propaganda site, it is just like browsing at +1 or higher.

The only reason I read slashdot anymore is because of the trolls. Despite this, I still believe trolling is the moral equivalent of sneaking out at 4:00 A.M. to shit on someone's lawn-- smelly, but incredibly funny when the victim uses linux.

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