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Don't Stop File-Sharing, Says Former Pink Floyd Manager
Barence writes "The former manager of Pink Floyd has labelled attempts to clamp down on music file-sharing as a 'waste of time.' 'Not only are they a waste of time, they make the law offensive. They are comparable to prohibition in the US in the 1920s,' said Peter Jenner, who's now the emeritus president of the International Music Managers' Forum. 'It's absurd to expect ordinary members of the public to think about what they're allowed to do [with CDs, digital downloads, etc]... and then ask themselves whether it's legal or not.' The comments come as Britain's biggest ISP, BT, said it was confident that Britain's Digital Economy Act — which could result in file-sharers losing their internet connection — would be overturned in the courts, because it doesn't comply with European laws on privacy."
They are comparable to prohibition in the US in the 1920s
I wish a bittorrent network was anything like a speakeasy.
Filesharing may be free as in beer, but it does not deliver you free beer.
RIAA, Leave Them Kids Alone!
He is just upset that when the RIAA cracks down, some users will not have gotten a complete Floyd album.
"His name was James Damore."
... another brick in the firewall.
Exactly what Mr Pink up there is saying.
By the way, which one's Pink?
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General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Hey, they're helping to fight global warming!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
...a momentary lapse of unreason.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
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They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Yeah, it's Time to put a stop to all this Us and Them. These repeated lawsuits just sound like Echoes to me. It's A Great Day for Freedom.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
If BP used Bono's music in their cleanup ads for the oil spill, then it would put BP in a bad light.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.