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P2P Music Sharing Remains Popular Despite RIAA
KarmaOverDogma writes "The New York Times reports that the RIAA's attempts to cut down on (music) file sharing are slow to show any effect, as much of the public still considers the activity to be useful and/or acceptable. P2P filesharing activity has decreased very little since they began their end-user legal campaign."
I've started hosting the article on Gnutella
Banaaaana!
Y'arr, does any lad find this here news of pirates somewhat coincidental? Today be talk-like-a-pirate day, it be!
Offenders will get twenty lashes of the cat-o-nine tails or walkin da plank to Davey Jones' locker. Y'arrr!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Originally read this as "caught and fixed," which may take on the RIAA point of view.
Have your filesharer spayed or neutered.
Can somebody give me the straight dope?
No, but I can give you a link to it:
http://www.straightdope.com
Enjoy!
http://xkcd.com/386/
With Sharman pulling all their DCMA shenanigans I couldn't find the new kazaa lite anywhere; it's been pulled from google and the old kazaalite.com doesn't work. I mean I couldn't find it anywhere. Until i fired up my old version of kazaa lite and searched under software. They really do have everything!
all of them
i sell illegal drugs
don't they know that nobody tells a pirate what do to!!! Especially when it be talk like a pirate day!!! Arr...
I vote for embedding artist PayPal addresses in mp3s.
A wonderful idea, until the first person discovers that that particular block of text can be edited.
Sure they would. This would be right up their sreeet once they had demand^H^H^H^H negotiated an 80% fee for the "management" of the PayPal accounts. After all, musicians just want to write songs and perform, not worry about all that "management" voodoo the RIAA so kindly does for them.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Yeah...people are cutting down on music filesharing. Sure. Just like people stopped drinking during Prohibition. Riiiight. People just don't do it as blatantly and openly as they used to.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
The only difference between the ignorant masses and the Slashdot crowd is that the Slashdot crowd's disregard for copyright laws comes from a sense of moral superiority.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
First, my hard drive isn't full of their music. I'm too busy protecting my free speech rights to have any time for actual downloading.
I am also too busy protecting my free speech to download things. It's an 18-hour-a-day job posting "freedom of speech is great!" comments to Slashdot, which I think is a great use of my time because 1.) Slashdot is full of anti-free-speech advocates and it's important to win these people over, and 2.) the readership of Slashdot has a lot of political pull in Washington DC, and every "+5 insightful" comment probably sways a couple of senators.
I also rode a giant blue doggy to the Candy Planet.
"95% of all Slashdot
In yet other news, 90% of people on the road right now are going five to ten MPH over the posted speed limit, despite a standing army of ticket-writing cops on patrol every minute of every day.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt