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NYT Promotes File Sharing

Posted by michael on from the all-i-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten dept.

aisaac writes "An article in today's NYT comments intelligently on filesharing. Key points: downloading music is not illegal, peer-to-peer enables this useful and legal activity, and a list of good places to find good music online (including the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress. The Induce Act is briefly mentioned without analysis, but the article does not mention that some of the Act's sponsors and cosponsors have expressed a willingness to consider ammendments to restrict the application of the Act. (This according to a letter I received from Senator Sarbanes.) Let's keep the pressure on!" A Congress call-in day is being organized.

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  1. Re:Clearly NYT was hanging out on /.... by BostonRob · · Score: 0, Troll

    Replying to my own post...

    My sarcasm tags got coded as HTML! Darn no post editing!

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  2. Re:Actually, it does not at all promote filesharin by turnstyle · · Score: 0, Troll
    "Yeah it does promote it as they do recommend FurthurNET.org (which is a Java P2P application)."

    Well by my count, FurthurNET is 1 of 20 sources in the article, so I'm not sure that really jusifies Slashdot's headline: "NYT Promotes File Sharing"

    Furthermore, FurthurNET is only for sharing authorized work, isn't it?

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  3. Re:They promote free music, not just filesharing! by geoffspear · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yes. And they'd probably care if monkeys started flying out of their butts, too.

    What's your point?

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  4. The drug trafficer's road by SilentChris · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think it's perfectly reasonable and acceptable that big business is going after some of the file sharing networks on nothing more than "guilt by association".

    Sure, there are legal downloads on nearly all of the services, but the vast majority on, say, Kazaa is illegal. If police knew a road was being by 95 drug trafficers and 5 ordinary citizens, they'd be in the right to close the road -- regardless if those 5 raised a stink about it or not.

    Quite frankly, I don't think there's a single popular P2P service ("popular" defined as, say, 1,000,000 or more users) that has a great majority of legal files over illegal. Closing down the services is just like closing down that road.