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Kazaa Sues Record Labels
dannyp writes "CNN is reporting that Kazaa is suing the record companies, claiming that they used an illegal client to log in to the P2P network - an interesting twist." The lawsuit also claims "...efforts to combat piracy on Kazaa violated terms for using the network."
This is not some sort of contest. The immaturaity level on fark.com is stunning and by far worse than what is seen on slashdot.
Look at the comments on this page relating to this story to see how bad it is on fark.com
Sunny Dubey
In this corner in the white shorts it's the D!M!C!A!
and in the very dark corner in the very dark bondage suit it's the D!M!C!A!(RIAA)
Lets get r-r-r-r-r-eady to r-r-r-umbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Warning in advance: this comment is sorely off-topic with regard to the story. It's meaningful in context of the above comment /^\.
If you read the majority of the +5, Funny comments, the Newspeak aspects of Slashdot society become apparent. Instead of posing concrete, meaningful arguments, people write:
1) (corporate action taken to be unfavorable)
2) (another bad thing)
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Or, in a Linux/SCO article, they make a bad SCO pun (SCOurge! Stupid Corporate Organization! et cetera).
Or see the above "In Soviet Russia / Kazaa sues the record companies" comment.
Or (I confess) in a Microsoft-sues-John-Ashcroft article, they make a "dude, who do we trust now?" comment. Metacommentary can get trite too.
You're absolutely right that nothing's black and white. Indeed, that was my point--and, if you look at many of the above comments on this story, they've missed that point. ("Its about fucking time. / I'm glad there's some legal action going the other way for once.")
The point is that Kazaa (which has done some pretty messy things in the past, like the aforementioned C&D letter to Google) is using bad legislation (DMCA) for a good purpose (screw with the RIAA). It's kind of like when the US government used the PATRIOT Act against PayPal -- one infringes civil liberties, the other launders money; what do you do?
If you're Kazaa Lite and you want any legitimacy within the US (I'm not sure they do), you pray that the RIAA wins this case. Yikes.
Also offtopic: I call Godwin's Law, but Hitler wasn't much of an artist. Check this out, and the main link.
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Dude, I'm drunk. Where is she?
Me.
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