Except for those of us where the phone company is so lame (read Ameritech) that they wont get DSL until late 2001 (if then). When @Home is the only game in town, you got to play.
I hope the merchants just tell @Home to shove their bill up their arse. And let @home try to block them. Could you see the howls if people cant get to Amazon.com or Ebay.com because they these companies won't submit to this type of extortion. I would think that this a good way to get a lot of negative PR (and lose customers!)
Because you ARE giving it away. You may not transfer your "fair use" copy to another person since this deprives the copyright holder of a potential source of revenue.
This has always been the purpose of copyright -- to make money. It seems that because it is a Big Company making the money; we have a "right" to interfer with that.
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I hope the merchants just tell @Home to shove their bill up their arse. And let @home try to block them. Could you see the howls if people cant get to Amazon.com or Ebay.com because they these companies won't submit to this type of extortion. I would think that this a good way to get a lot of negative PR (and lose customers!)
Well, here comes one more incompatibility between "friends".
This has always been the purpose of copyright -- to make money. It seems that because it is a Big Company making the money; we have a "right" to interfer with that.