I wonder if somebody could find a way to make this legal. A company that distributes tv-shows and movies laced with comercials, with a distribute-but-don't-remove-ads license. I don't see who would ever bother to remove them, just to make downloads 5 or 10 percent faster.
Television stations work like that, and a few megs of bandwidth(since users use bittorent) should be waaaaay cheaper than running a tv network.
This is bad. Sure, the RIAA may be evil and overcharging for crap(music) but they are right this time. They sue people who share gigs of mp3, not just the casual downloader.
The internet makes it a lot easier to break copyright law, and I don't think privacy should be used as a cover to break the law.
In the days of warez on free web storage hosts kept deleting content, now there is no way to do that, they have to sue the users.
I hope that this campaign will bring file sharing to it's knees, and there won't be any need for DRM and stuff. Come on, there has always been piracy, but p2p just brings it on a whole new level.
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I wonder if somebody could find a way to make this legal. A company that distributes tv-shows and movies laced with comercials, with a distribute-but-don't-remove-ads license. I don't see who would ever bother to remove them, just to make downloads 5 or 10 percent faster.
Television stations work like that, and a few megs of bandwidth(since users use bittorent) should be waaaaay cheaper than running a tv network.
This is bad. Sure, the RIAA may be evil and overcharging for crap(music) but they are right this time. They sue people who share gigs of mp3, not just the casual downloader. The internet makes it a lot easier to break copyright law, and I don't think privacy should be used as a cover to break the law. In the days of warez on free web storage hosts kept deleting content, now there is no way to do that, they have to sue the users. I hope that this campaign will bring file sharing to it's knees, and there won't be any need for DRM and stuff. Come on, there has always been piracy, but p2p just brings it on a whole new level.