Why Make a Sequel of the Napster Wars?

6 writes "Cory Doctorow has an interesting article over at Information Week about Hollywood's strategy of suing sites such as YouTube. Says Doctorow: 'It's been eight years since Sean Fanning created Napster in his college dorm room. Eight years later, there isn't a single authorized music service that can compete with the original Napster. Record sales are down every year, and digital music sales aren't filling in the crater. The record industry has contracted to four companies, and it may soon be three if EMI can get regulatory permission to put itself on the block. The sue-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-'em-out plan was a flop in the box office, a flop in home video, and a flop overseas. So why is Hollywood shooting a remake?'"

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Napster, WTF? Hotline Servers

[Anonymous Coward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Connect

Napster was for the retarded masses and came out at least two years later.

Hotline was where the original media piracy started. Everyone else, like Napster, was for lamers.

Re:Well

[MushMouth]

Mob rule! Tell that to the families of people lynched in the south.

The excellent point

[Anonymous Coward]

At the moment of Digg's infamous rich Internet diplomatic

Re:Well

[jt2377]

What the fuck? Nike gave Jordan a giant check to use Jordan's image to sell Air Jordan shoes. What the fuck give Jordan the rights to demand a cut on every shoes sold. Jordan already got a huge payout from Nike. Those artists/movie stars already got a fat paycheck from the studio. what the fuck give them the rights to demand more? fuck you! stupid fuck!

MOD ARTICLE DOWN

[DwarfGoanna]

It's common knowledge that Cory Doctorow has never written an interesting article.