Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions

Zeta writes "The answers are finally in! Stanford's Lawrence Lessig and the RIAA's Matt Oppenheim have responded to all the tough questions on copyrighted music, many from Slashdot readers, for the online part of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Take a look - some of the responses may surprise you." We ran the original call for questions a few weeks back.

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Story: -1 Troll

[screwthemoderators]

In other news, it has been noticed that "Alternative" DJs in New England area, and probably the entire country, have become Trollers of the airwaves. When P2P networks get a little more interactive, maybe we can listen to people who care more about music than just pushing listeners' buttons.

the online part of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehre

[Anonymous Coward]

the online part of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Wow, the ONLINE part? It must be good!

many of which have been submitted by Slashdot readers

Wow, Slashdot readers? It must be REALLY good!!

Re:So..

[Anonymous Coward]

How the fuck is this redundant?

Fucktards.

Someone giving away YOUR Product for free

[Anonymous Coward]

is not competition, it's fucking theft. Quite making excuses, you're stealing their fucking music because you don't want to pay for it.

Re:The RIAA guy is an idiot...Copy the good stuff.

[packeteer]

This exists... its known as cold-fusion. With cold fusion we have near unlimited amounts of energy available to us. We can put that energy to use creating raw elements and we can have robots build near unlimited supply's of anything that exists. Alas my comrades this technology is held down by big oil. Becuase of their greed and addiction to money out entire race is doomed to live with limits on everything.

Ok well honestly if we could (or can ;)... ) replicate anything do you think there wouldn't be anyone in the world trying to supress something like that. Now i dont buy into those conspiracy theories but it makes sense that someone has an interest in stopping something like that it would be those with something to lose. The only people who have that much to lose are the very people with the ability to supress something like that. As i said before i dont think somehting like this has happened but seeing as i am a human like anyone else i bet wonderful new technology would not be so easy.