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File-Sharing Winners and Losers of 2005
An anonymous reader writes "A lot happened in the P2P world in 2005 according to Slyck news. From the article: 'BitTorrent soared to new heights while Steve Jobs enjoyed record breaking iPod sales. Yet not everyone shared this success. The RIAA continued its fight against P2P networking with little effect, as Sony-BMG disgraced itself and the DRM concept.'"
Let's correct this once again shall we:
Winners: People who don't want to pay for music or movies and would rather steal them.
Losers: Businesses who have a right to sell their products under the protection of copyright laws.
Biggest Losers: The average consumer who has to deal with excessive DRM because of the losers above.
It is not the fault of the "winners" that certain businesses refuse to sell their product without draconian restrictions and inflated prices.
I don't know why I am so passionate about the issue. Sharing music is no more stealing than going to a friends house to watch a movie. If I like the movie, I will buy it, if I like the music I will buy an album. I would really like to say, "Sharing music is not a crime, stealing a CD from a retail outfit is!" There is not much more that can be said about the issue, if anyone likes a song they heard, they will go out and support the artist if they wish to continue the deliverence of good quality music!
Piracey is good? - its a great read, describing what happened to the SciFi channel because of torrent downloads.