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Kazaa CEO vs. Hilary Rosen
Carpoolio writes "TechTV is continuing its good coverage of the RIAA attack on file swappers, and now they've gone to Australia to interview Nikki Hemming, CEO of Sharman Networks (Kazaa). It's supposedly one of the only TV interviews she's ever done, and Hemming has some interesting things to say about Hilary Rosen and the RIAA, and the future of Kazaa, but without revealing too much. In TechTV's story (part of a three-part series), they've pitted the two against each other, using a recent interview they did with Rosen. Streaming video of the Rosen interview is included on the site."
which one is Gozilla and which one is Mothra?
MMORPG fan-boy? Prove your worth
Sounds like an, uhm, interesting mud wrestling match. I would seriously pay for front row seats to that.
In the, erm, brown corner we have Hilary Rosen; devourer of civil liberties, champion of everyone's IP rights (for varying values of 'everyone',) and destroyer of the fell beast Napster.
In the, uhm, OTHER brown corner, we have Nikki Hemming; fearless leader of Sharman Networks, profiteers behind such wonderful, life enhancing software as 'KaZaA Media Desktop;' single-handedly responsible for installing the Brilliant Digital plugin onto millions of desktops.
Like I said. Front row seats. Winner gets a latex fist, ten pounds of diff grease and a brass replica of the Scales of Justice.
You're doing it wrong.
Yeah, but that's what you get when you buy a CD too, a much too loud abomination of what the artist recorded.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
I thought one had to be and 800lbs. gorilla... ?
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Do we support Hilary 'CD Crippler' Rosen or Nikki 'Spyware Installer' Hemming?
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
I was hoping they would mention if pirated versions of NHL 2004 were going to be available soon. I bet Nikki gets all the stuff first. -- I guess i'll give up file-sharing and go back to stabbing hookers.
Yes, that was sarcasm!
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
Well, comparing this to this, I would have to say Nikki wins hands down.
Note that Hilary spells her name with one "l". This is the case with the vast majority of Hil(l)arys, at least in the United States. But the former first lady, a notable exception, has caused all these poor Hilarys (Hilaries?) to spend the rest of their lives having their names misspelled. Hilary Rosen deserves such an awful fate, but for the sake of the others, I ask you to mind your "l"s.
Won't somebody please think of the Hilarys?
The preceding was paid for by the Coalition for Hilary Awareness.
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I had forgotten to fire up my copy of Kazaa this morning!
I can use an app (adaware) to get rid of spyware, any app that lets me get rid of a lawsuit?
I didn't know you could videotape the devil. I thought it would be like with vampires and mirrors, not being able to see themselves, or something. :\
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See...I take my gun and I put it -- point blank -- to the forehead of my latest musician victim. Then I say, "write me a song, now!" with a menacing little "...or else..." sometimes thrown in for good measure.
I gotta say, I love stealing music. But Ms. Rosen is right, the quality is dubious...you'd be surprised how bad a lot of musicians are at freestyle and adlib.
Maybe I need to stick with Jazz musicians.
In case the site gets slashdotted, I put a copy of the video up on Kazaa.
OK, we all hate and loathe the RIAA and MPAA and we will bring them down. I think it's time to start planning for a post-RIAA world order.
First, and most fun, should come the war-crimes tribunal. Hilary Rosen, Jack Valenti, Congressmen Berman, Tauzin, Hatch, and Hollings, and all the top execs at the content companies should be put in stockades in public squares around the country so that music fans and citizens can throw CDs, cassettes, and excrement at them (sorry, triply redundant, that.). Then we put them in strait jackets, put them in rubber rooms, and force them to listen to N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, and all of their terrible music until their ears bleed and they're reduced to piles of gibbering insanity. Then we'll give them a life sentence in a nice asylum where they can finger paint and watch Barney with expressions of childlike wonder.
Then we designate a national holiday to mark our liberation, to be celebrated by amateur musicians, thespians, and artists performing free in public plazas and parks across the land. We'll show movies outdoors against the sides of buildings, like in the old days, and have carnival booths where you can pay a nickel to take a whack at Lars and the Metallica boys. Ahhh, can you see it?
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I thought Celebrity Boxing was on FOX.
Sounds like a good match, tho.
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You could walk on to Santa Monica beach, swing a bat over your head, and any of the first nine people you hit would make a better leader than Davis.
Is that before or after you konked 'em in the head with a bat?
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Kazaa has been downloaded 240 million times. Lets assume that represents nearly half of all P2P downloads - call it 500 million. Lets conservatively each one results in an average of 20 infringing downloads. That equals 10 billion infringments. Statutory damages of $150,000 each means they can sue for $1500 trillion in damages.
Gross world product was about $45.9 trillion in 2001. The 30 year rate of growth was about 3.35% per year. It is then straight forward to calculate that the gross world product for the entire history of world up until today is approximately $1498 trillion.
The RIAA could sue for ownership of the entire planet PLUS an extra $2 trillion to boot.
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