As far as the article about going to jail for downloading MP3s, how can this be shown to be illegal without a search of the downloader's home to prove that they didn't have the CD from which the song came?
On the other hand, this may become the newest excuse to break into people's homes. They got Al Capone with taxes, maybe they'll get people in the future for downloading Mp3s.
How much of this do you guys think is driven by the artists, and how much by the companies *behind* the artists?
I'm not standing up for Metallica or Dr. Dre, but I'm saying that they almost certainly had various suits whispering in their ears, "You know, those bad internet people are stealing your stuff!" It's the companies that are terrified, and it's the companies that are driving this whole thing.
It doesn't matter that much anyway. With Gnutella et al., they won't have anyone to sue because there's no centralized "enemy" for them to attach.
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As far as the article about going to jail for downloading MP3s, how can this be shown to be illegal without a search of the downloader's home to prove that they didn't have the CD from which the song came?
On the other hand, this may become the newest excuse to break into people's homes. They got Al Capone with taxes, maybe they'll get people in the future for downloading Mp3s.
How much of this do you guys think is driven by the artists, and how much by the companies *behind* the artists?
I'm not standing up for Metallica or Dr. Dre, but I'm saying that they almost certainly had various suits whispering in their ears, "You know, those bad internet people are stealing your stuff!" It's the companies that are terrified, and it's the companies that are driving this whole thing.
It doesn't matter that much anyway. With Gnutella et al., they won't have anyone to sue because there's no centralized "enemy" for them to attach.
Quick! Spread out!
After all, if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have any of this!
Again, very similar to the situation with Microsoft getting the royal treatment on e-Bay.
They still suck!
Does this mean that we can, by popular election, vote in such wonderful TLDs as:
.sucks
.god
.atemyballs
.isawebsite
?
It might be the year 2000, but 1984 is getting closer and closer....
fnord