I don't know about anyone else's friendships, but I certainly don't share files with friends. Sure, I recommend or having something recommended to me, but they (and I) know how to get hold of the media itself without having files transferred to them by me.
Is this not what would happen with iPlayer? "Hello Jim, I enjoyed Spooks on iPlayer last night", "Really Jason? I'll go and watch that on my iPlayer, cable catchup, or whatever without the hassle of cracking the DRM out of the WMV file and working out how to get it off your computer via a slow ADSL upload speed or taking our laptops to the pub". (Conversation in theory anyhow - I can't use iPlayer on my Macs, nor can many of my friends who have Macs). J > > Sharing artistic works between friends is one of the central tenets of > > > friendship. Ask anyone under 20 if they've got a laptop, and if they > > > do, if they have copies of music from their friends. Its almost > > > certain that they will. > > > > No - it isn't! > > Ask 'em. Seriously. On the way to work or something. Please? >
