mabye,
for example, here in Ireland a product was developed some years ago, a phone with a little b/w screen and was prototyped perfectly. But the telecoms regulator would not allow this product to go on sale.
It seems that the phone co. will have no control over cyberspace.
This is an interesting delevopment in the linux-pda saga, will Pda's have linux preinstalled in a couple of years time? Probably not, but we can dream.
There are a lot of kids out there that dl (insert popular filesharing proggie here)
then download music to their hearts content.
This is what the media is pushing in our faces, that p2p networks are the nemisis of the music industry, and they are. But what do we
(ie. slashdotters) have to worry about, even if all the p2p networks were shut down, which seems damn impossibe, we would just go back to the old ways of getting files, FTP, HTTP, usenet, IRC...etc. The people who will suffer is the average 14 y/o kid who uses their family cable to down songs. If these users were eliminated, then there would be 99.9% less publicity about filesharing, and the elite.1% could carry on.
I can dream...........
btw, this is a first post
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mabye, for example, here in Ireland a product was developed some years ago, a phone with a little b/w screen and was prototyped perfectly. But the telecoms regulator would not allow this product to go on sale. It seems that the phone co. will have no control over cyberspace.
This is an interesting delevopment in the linux-pda saga,
will Pda's have linux preinstalled in a couple of years time? Probably not, but we can dream.
There are a lot of kids out there that dl (insert popular filesharing proggie here) then download music to their hearts content. This is what the media is pushing in our faces, that p2p networks are the nemisis of the music industry, and they are. But what do we (ie. slashdotters) have to worry about, even if all the p2p networks were shut down, which seems damn impossibe, we would just go back to the old ways of getting files, FTP, HTTP, usenet, IRC...etc. The people who will suffer is the average 14 y/o kid who uses their family cable to down songs. If these users were eliminated, then there would be 99.9% less publicity about filesharing, and the elite .1% could carry on.
I can dream...........
btw, this is a first post