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VPN For Kazaa Users Launched
prostoalex writes "AnonX allows Kazaa users to connect to its own VPN, effectively obfuscating their original IP address that certain association has been using to subpoena the file-sharers. The company is created by a Texas ISP employee, but is registered in Vanuatu, and already has 7,000 users paying $6 a month."
The reason that this argument falls apart is as follows:
:-P
If the "powers that be" can ticket you everytime you speed, people will stop speeding.
If they find a way to guarantee that a file that is shared across a network violates copyright, and prosecute (read: fine) the persons involved in the transmission of the file, people will stop trading copyrighted material.
I, for one believe, however, that a small percentage of users will always remain smarter than the folks trying to prevent promiscious copyright violations. They will create tools (like this) and will distribute/sell them to the rest of the not so smart folks.
The way to stop illegal copying of CR material is to:
A) Give the product worth (e.g. more than one decent track on a disc).
B) Make the product less expensive than copying it would be. I suspect that the TOTAL cost of producing ONE CD is considerably less than $15.
(Someone figure me this; take the cost of manufacturing, production, marketing, bribing disc jockeys, paying for hookers, beer and drugs for the band, advances and the like, take out the tour till, merchandising, and other income. Take that number and divide it by the number of CDs sold at Best Buy and Wall-Mart. Really, someone in the know, do the math... Is it really $15 dollars each for millions of copies sold?)
C) Stop being so goddamn greedy. Both of you, the industry turds AND the cheapass tightwads.
See, there could be levels of music; expensive music, like Britany and Eminem, that wealthy people could afford to buy, and then, like, middleclass music, that most of us could afford; beer drinking music, like Meatloaf and Lynyrd Skynard, and finally, inexpensive, generic music targeted at welfare families and the like. Creed, U2 and 4-Non Blondes. You could even hand out MusicStamps (tm, BTW) that would allow less affluent people to purchase state subsidized music, like Community College Barbershop Quartets or The Dixie Chicks.
Anyway... I tire of this conversation...
- Jim