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Filesharing Traffic Drops After RIAA Threats
bryan writes "According to CNN, facing the threat of lawsuits from a music industry trade group, fewer people are using online filesharing applications to swap songs. Internet audience measurement service Nielsen Net Ratings said traffic on Kazaa, the leading filesharing platform, fell 15 percent in the week ended July 6 from the previous week. It was during that prior week, on June 25, that the Recording Industry Association of America said it would track down the heaviest users of "peer-to-peer" services like Kazaa and sue them for damages of up to $150,000 per copyright violation." This follows earlier reports, from the filesharing companies themselves, that traffic was actually increasing.
If Pat Robertson were to tell the truth, he might loose some of his marketshare.
How do you loose marketshare? Is that the opposite of tightening marketshare? But what does that mean? Hmmmmmm.
Thanks for the modding - it's not for the karma, I'm capped already.
But each time we get a link modded up on Slashdot, we get lots of offers of help, which speeds things up a whole load. Thanks, mods.
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Please Taco and co., please!, will you ever think about making Anonymous Cowards unable to post ?
*sigh*
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I'm not a fan of Pat Robertson, but I'm a Christian. Until you can explain to me how the "backwards-wired" vertebrate eye and marsupial pouches came to be in tiny evolutionary steps, let's quit assuming that Creationists are all just a bunch of stubborn fools, and that evolution is perfect.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Um... ok. Hate to post to these, (esp so far off topic) but I can't help it. My brother was once a Christian. Asked him once how all those dynosaur bones came to be about. He said "God is testing our faith". "Um, ok" I said, and stopped trying to convince. That seems to be the beauty of brain washing. Hard to fight a loss of logic.
No man is an island... But I wouldn't mind having a bigger moat.
How exactly do Dinosaurs go against any Christian dogma?
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Forgot to mention this, but I do apologize. I don't know enough about the history of marsupials or the development of the eye to directly comment on either.
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Are you saying that both the Earth was created in 6 days (what is usually meant by the term "creationism"), and that the Universe has existed for over 10 billion years, and life took billions of years to evolve to its current form, using evolution? As I see it, those are mutually exclusive concepts, and, as such, are not orthogonal.
Ewige Blumenkraft.