The license Launchcast purchased no doubt specifies the allowed usage. If they are acting outside of the prescribed boundries of the license, then the RIAA is following the only reasonable course of action.
I would venture to say that there are more important matters than free music, and contract law is certainly one of them. Although I will readily admit that I enjoy not paying for music, it is not worth living in a society where legal contracts are routinely flouted. Perhaps a little perspective is needed in this issue.
When debating gun laws, gun advocates are often asked to supply examples of legitimate usage. The intuition, I suppose, is that the harm caused by guns is obvious; what needs debated is if any good can come from them.
How does this relate to P2P? Well, it is obvious to anyone who looks that such applications are used to pirate immense amounts of protected material. This doesn't need to be debated. However, a case does need to be made for allowing such applications to exist at all. If the only examples of usage truly are illegal and harmful, then defending P2P becomes untenable.
I am interested to read what examples can be provided for positive usage of P2P, but I'm afraid that like guns, it will be shown that overwhelmingly P2P is used to flout the law and that our society is better without it.
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The license Launchcast purchased no doubt specifies the allowed usage. If they are acting outside of the prescribed boundries of the license, then the RIAA is following the only reasonable course of action.
I would venture to say that there are more important matters than free music, and contract law is certainly one of them. Although I will readily admit that I enjoy not paying for music, it is not worth living in a society where legal contracts are routinely flouted. Perhaps a little perspective is needed in this issue.
When debating gun laws, gun advocates are often asked to supply examples of legitimate usage. The intuition, I suppose, is that the harm caused by guns is obvious; what needs debated is if any good can come from them.
How does this relate to P2P? Well, it is obvious to anyone who looks that such applications are used to pirate immense amounts of protected material. This doesn't need to be debated. However, a case does need to be made for allowing such applications to exist at all. If the only examples of usage truly are illegal and harmful, then defending P2P becomes untenable.
I am interested to read what examples can be provided for positive usage of P2P, but I'm afraid that like guns, it will be shown that overwhelmingly P2P is used to flout the law and that our society is better without it.
This is a tragedy. A moment of silence, please.
Adding hi-res color logos to Half-Life was the funniest thing that ever happened to an FPS.
Maybe that's what some people want.
I love it. You can always spot a Shoeboy post just by looking at the formatting.
Lightning doesn't strike twice
Yeah it does. It strikes a whole hell of a lot more than just twice.
It would be fine. I happen to know that for a fact.
If the navy is interested, they have my number.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but plain HTML does that fine.
The picture? Or the thousand words?
What happened to plain, pure, elegant HTML?
You woke up?
Hush you. I'm in tears over this, and I've never even played Diablo 2.
Good open source games are unhackable.
:(
Unfortunately, it's because they don't exist.
She's letting so much precious man-chowder go to waste!
I'm not sure about the exact year, but your CMOS chip will probably need it's own separate computer.
Which in turn would need a CMOS chip...oh no.
Oooh...that one didn't go anywhere.
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