Although I agree with your point, This can get realy ugly realy fast.
If This were true to form, Then Why did the RIAA file suit against napster? Nothing on Napster was being bought. It was all given away, No profit made. Statistics even show that Sales went up during high napster usage.
From what i can see of the Post, Taco stayed objective to the post, it's the person writing in who mentioned the intimidation. Yes, Slashdot users as a collective will agree this is the right thing for the MPAA to do, going after the people who are sharing the material, and not the producer of the utility like the RIAA did/is doing with Napster.
It's almost as if the MPAA learned a lesson out of the DeCSS mess in that they shoulnd't go after the utility and that they should go after the people using the utility.
It bothers me that some of the users assume that whatever is in Itlics on a post is the thoughts of the person posting the atricle.
In case you havn't noticed, the internet has been and still is running from software, and most of the people reading slashdot scrape out their living from software. So if you don't really care how all this affects you, you should at least realize that every little detail can affect people make their livelyhood from this software.
This areticle in a way goes with the "Corporate Conglomerate HOWTO" posted earlier. It pretty much sums up that the MPAA, the DVDCA, The Music Industry, and china have been reading the HOWTO mentioned above. Reverse enginnering has been oging on ever since the 2nd person to own a computer learned how to program and could see what the 1st person was doing, so unless an entire court has been bought or there is an incredibly stupid chain of events that defy Logic, Reverse engineering will be legal. As for China realizing that the internet is Not censorable. I don't see that for decades. They would several all Links to the outside world before they would admit that they don't have control over Speach on the internet.
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Although I agree with your point, This can get realy ugly realy fast. If This were true to form, Then Why did the RIAA file suit against napster? Nothing on Napster was being bought. It was all given away, No profit made. Statistics even show that Sales went up during high napster usage.
From what i can see of the Post, Taco stayed objective to the post, it's the person writing in who mentioned the intimidation. Yes, Slashdot users as a collective will agree this is the right thing for the MPAA to do, going after the people who are sharing the material, and not the producer of the utility like the RIAA did/is doing with Napster.
It's almost as if the MPAA learned a lesson out of the DeCSS mess in that they shoulnd't go after the utility and that they should go after the people using the utility.
It bothers me that some of the users assume that whatever is in Itlics on a post is the thoughts of the person posting the atricle.
Is it just me or is history starting to repeat itself in the new age?
So does this mean that MS now owns All the Spam as well?
In case you havn't noticed, the internet has been and still is running from software, and most of the people reading slashdot scrape out their living from software. So if you don't really care how all this affects you, you should at least realize that every little detail can affect people make their livelyhood from this software.
This areticle in a way goes with the "Corporate Conglomerate HOWTO" posted earlier. It pretty much sums up that the MPAA, the DVDCA, The Music Industry, and china have been reading the HOWTO mentioned above. Reverse enginnering has been oging on ever since the 2nd person to own a computer learned how to program and could see what the 1st person was doing, so unless an entire court has been bought or there is an incredibly stupid chain of events that defy Logic, Reverse engineering will be legal. As for China realizing that the internet is Not censorable. I don't see that for decades. They would several all Links to the outside world before they would admit that they don't have control over Speach on the internet.