Remember when the RIAA did their experiment with those kids downloading a ton of music before the Grammys, well those same kids said they got most of their content with AIM. Shutting down everything except HTTP/SMTP/POP may not even cut it nowadays
yeah, but the kids doing this were just getting music from friends, not from some nebulous place on the net. I doubt this is a realistic scenario extrapolated over time... everyone can't get all or even most of their mp3s from aim.
Slashdot Mirror
And the rumor here has been that they are going under and moving out by the end of the month.
Remember when the RIAA did their experiment with those kids downloading a ton of music before the Grammys, well those same kids said they got most of their content with AIM. Shutting down everything except HTTP/SMTP/POP may not even cut it nowadays
yeah, but the kids doing this were just getting music from friends, not from some nebulous place on the net. I doubt this is a realistic scenario extrapolated over time... everyone can't get all or even most of their mp3s from aim.