Showdown Looms for P2P Networks
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 02 March 2005 - 11:06 · 8 comments & 706 views
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#1 Posted by Harsesis on 02 Mar 2005 - 11:12
- Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee RIAA/MPAA collective pwnage soon
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#2 Posted by Jugalator on 02 Mar 2005 - 12:05
- Well of all reasons they have to protect their software from the RIAA, I think this is actually a valid one. P2P technology is useful not only for file sharing, but a huge number of various other apps. Skype uses P2P for example, and hardly in an illegal way. Letting P2P technology evolve will probably now and then give someone ideas for interesting new uses of it, and companies being stopped in their tracks for their users using it for illegal purposes is a bit silly. Stick with the user lawsuits if you so necessarily need to do that, IMHO.
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#3 Posted by Mongrel on 02 Mar 2005 - 16:23
- Speaking of which, what's the deal with Exeem - hasn't worked for weeks...
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#4 Posted by WhatsMyName on 02 Mar 2005 - 17:47
- eXeem is working for me
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#5 Posted by Arckon on 02 Mar 2005 - 17:49
- I just hope that the **AA finally realize that the Internet has really changed the way the world does business. I the Artists/Record/Movie labels need to focus on other ways to make money instead of suing everyone on the planet for downloading their works. It's never going to stop. I believe that if they lower their prices instead of raising their prices because of new copy protection measures, more people will buy their stuff and show more trust in them.
I think things have gone far enough, and we (the consumers) need to speak out about this...and actually make sure something gets done about it instead of just talk.
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#6 Posted by Endersothergame on 02 Mar 2005 - 18:37
- I agree with #5. Based on the fact that if they keep in line with making it illegal, they will only spawn more ppl trying to find different ways to do what they do now. If the item were closer to its actual value instead of severly inflated ppl might be more inclined to spend money on it. <instead of simply stealing it and getting it for free>
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#7 Posted by SquareSoft0 on 02 Mar 2005 - 23:20
The rules are, backs turned, 10 steps forward, loser goes home in a coffin.
The entertainment industry attempted to stall several technologies, including the VCR, the copying machine, and tape recorders, as they became available, but in the end found ways to make money from those technologies, said participants in a press conference organized by digital rights advocacy group Public Knowledge. The case could affect the "entire American technology sector," said Fred von Lohmann, senor staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil rights group.
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