But the RIAA is committing suicide and will not be killed by any boycott. The "fear and awe" war will probably kill KaZaA. The users will, in fear, quit KaZaA. Just to start using systems like freenet that hide IP addresses and make filesharers really anonymous. Chinese cyberdissidents are already using freenet.
Remember the RIAA vs Napster case. Napster was server based. The RIAA killed Napster (shutting down the server(s)) and eventually, gnutella-like, server free systems, (KaZaA and other) emerged.
The RIAA is dead.
The copyright laws on music, that were invented a hundred years ago as a response to a new technology: the gramophone, are dead. The Internet have made these laws obsolete. So the business based on these laws...
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I agree.
But the RIAA is committing suicide and will not be killed by any boycott.
The "fear and awe" war will probably kill KaZaA. The users will, in fear, quit KaZaA. Just to start using systems like freenet that hide IP addresses and make filesharers really anonymous.
Chinese cyberdissidents are already using freenet.
Remember the RIAA vs Napster case. Napster was server based. The RIAA killed Napster (shutting down the server(s)) and eventually, gnutella-like, server free systems, (KaZaA and other) emerged.
The RIAA is dead.
The copyright laws on music, that were invented a hundred years ago as a response to a new technology: the gramophone, are dead. The Internet have made these laws obsolete. So the business based on these laws...
Vive la musique !!