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Attempts To Stop Music Sharing Pointless?
job0 writes "An interesting paper (Word document) has been submitted by some Microsoft employees (although they are careful to state that that the views are theirs and not necessarily Microsoft's) to the 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management stating that attempts by the record industry to stop music copying will fail simply because a) the growth and availability of affordable broadband and cheap data storage devices and b )ability of users to circumvent any DRM measures means that the number of people willing to swap is growing and will soon outstrip attempts to shut them down. The paper goes to suggest that the record industry should concentrate their efforts on trying music cheaper and easier to get hold off. I wonder if Hilary and friends have had a read. The BBC is also carrying the story." (OpenOffice has no problem with the paper, btw.)
you're dumb, coolermaster makes shit, and I won't give my money to bands to make CDs.. they're still going to make music. if they don't fuck'em they're not worth me listening too. when you buy CDs you're telling the recording industry that it's ok for them to publish Nick Carter and the power puff boys CD.
They're using their grammar skills there.
I'll use as an example Prohibition of Alcohol in the USA. It was a big boost to Organized Crime.
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I don't give a fuck if the RIAA is on an "angelic" mission to stop file sharing, but don't tell me prohibition of alcohol is a bad thing and brings more problems than intended.
Prohibiting alcohol reduced a lot of crime rates, especially rape. If doing anything reduces homicides, rapes, etc. it's a very good thing not a bad one. It was only deemed "pointless" because the "guys in suits" didn't like losing tax on alcohol breverages.
Last thing anyone wants is for their mother or sister to get rapped, because alcohol zapped their brain and made them into sex drones.
And for all the fucks who are going to reply and say, "they should drink responsibly", here is my response: Give some booze to 10 people, 9 people will become regular drinkers, 1 will just drink casually. It's the same with drugs or smoking. You can't "take drugs responsibly" or "smoke responsibly"(the terms are like oxymorons).
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