This article is published on a website that derives money from banner-ads. It draws traffic. It makes money. Slashdot is a news site. A for-profit news site. Owned by a publicly traded(?) company called Andover.Net. Andover.Net is a corporation too. Granted it's not as large as the AOL/Time Warner bit, but it's still out there to make dough. Now, knowing all this, I have to ask myself: Why was this article posted? It seems plain as day to me that whenever something like this is posted, a thousand people come in here and read it. They also (presumably) read the banner ads. Slashdot makes/money/ from these articles. Kind of ironic, isn't it, that a news site that is out to make a buck publishes stories about the 'evils' of corporatiss in order to draw traffic, to make money? I submit to you all, that you are being misled. You are being led on by a company out to make a buck. They publish stories like this to make money, nothing more. Am I the only one who has noticed that this site is/full/ of controversial subjects? Controversial subjects that draw a lot of traffic? This site has plenty of opportunity to betray your trust in its accuracy and motives. Who knows what is going on behind the scenes? And they even go to the point of calling corporations 'evil'! Slashdot is so hypocritical, it makes me sick.
I see no difference between an audio casette and a.mp3 file on my computer. You could record from the CD to your computer, or from your CD to a casette. If this was made plain to a judge, I really don't see how it could be dismissed as not true. That's just more RIAA propaganda.
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This article is published on a website that derives money from banner-ads. It draws traffic. It makes money. Slashdot is a news site. A for-profit news site. Owned by a publicly traded(?) company called Andover.Net. Andover.Net is a corporation too. Granted it's not as large as the AOL/Time Warner bit, but it's still out there to make dough. Now, knowing all this, I have to ask myself: Why was this article posted? It seems plain as day to me that whenever something like this is posted, a thousand people come in here and read it. They also (presumably) read the banner ads. Slashdot makes /money/ from these articles. Kind of ironic, isn't it, that a news site that is out to make a buck publishes stories about the 'evils' of corporatiss in order to draw traffic, to make money? I submit to you all, that you are being misled. You are being led on by a company out to make a buck. They publish stories like this to make money, nothing more. Am I the only one who has noticed that this site is /full/ of controversial subjects? Controversial subjects that draw a lot of traffic? This site has plenty of opportunity to betray your trust in its accuracy and motives. Who knows what is going on behind the scenes? And they even go to the point of calling corporations 'evil'! Slashdot is so hypocritical, it makes me sick.
I see no difference between an audio casette and a .mp3 file on my computer. You could record from the CD to your computer, or from your CD to a casette. If this was made plain to a judge, I really don't see how it could be dismissed as not true. That's just more RIAA propaganda.