Is this the new "hot topic" to replace the Elian Gonzalez saga for the news media here in the USA?
I happened to turn on "Politically Incorrect" (a light, quasi-comedy based political talk show hosted by a comedian with 4 guests for the benefit of those outside the US viewing area) and the first topic discussed was, you guessed it, Napster.
The host actually had something insightful to say about the music industry's assertion that Napster was killing their sales. (Paraphrased) "When I was younger, everyone I knew taped songs off the radio, and swapped albums and tapes to be copied."
One guest replied, (paraphrased) "Yes, but the ratio of then was like 3 or 4 to 1, who copied. With Napster, I believe that it's like 1 person buys a CD and 20 million copy it." What??? Are we to believe that Titney Spears and Outta'Sync, with that ratio, would have sold 30 Gazillion copies each if Napster didn't exist? The above statement by the clueless guest is what an un-elightened, un-informed public probably really believes.
However, the host had a CLASSIC line, "Record executives are just people who don't have the people skills to be pimps."
The US Congress seems to be questioning the FBI on Carnivore, however they seem to be more upset about the fact that they weren't notified first instead of the personal privacy issues it creates. Read it here: Congress isn't swallowing Carnivore
Do you know how often the l33t hax0rs exploit File/Print sharing as a means to gain access to a persons computer? And this is when someone accidently has this enabled. Now you want to suggest to millions of semi-computer literate users to enable it on purpose?
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Is this the new "hot topic" to replace the Elian Gonzalez saga for the news media here in the USA?
I happened to turn on "Politically Incorrect" (a light, quasi-comedy based political talk show hosted by a comedian with 4 guests for the benefit of those outside the US viewing area) and the first topic discussed was, you guessed it, Napster.
The host actually had something insightful to say about the music industry's assertion that Napster was killing their sales. (Paraphrased) "When I was younger, everyone I knew taped songs off the radio, and swapped albums and tapes to be copied."
One guest replied, (paraphrased) "Yes, but the ratio of then was like 3 or 4 to 1, who copied. With Napster, I believe that it's like 1 person buys a CD and 20 million copy it." What??? Are we to believe that Titney Spears and Outta'Sync, with that ratio, would have sold 30 Gazillion copies each if Napster didn't exist? The above statement by the clueless guest is what an un-elightened, un-informed public probably really believes.
However, the host had a CLASSIC line, "Record executives are just people who don't have the people skills to be pimps."
The US Congress seems to be questioning the FBI on Carnivore, however they seem to be more upset about the fact that they weren't notified first instead of the personal privacy issues it creates. Read it here: Congress isn't swallowing Carnivore
Do you know how often the l33t hax0rs exploit File/Print sharing as a means to gain access to a persons computer? And this is when someone accidently has this enabled. Now you want to suggest to millions of semi-computer literate users to enable it on purpose?