Ya know what ?
The RIAA is as stupid and disconnected from
reality as Microsoft is ! Maybe worse !
DAVENETICS........connecting the dot coms*
July 27, 2000
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WHY, BECAUSE WE LIKE IT ---
According to a survey released by PC Data, many consumers
are on the side of file-sharing and believe that the music
industry doesn't know what's good for them.
http://cyberatlas.com/markets/retailing/article/0,1323,6061_424651,00.html
Only 16 percent of home Internet users agree with the Recording
Industry Association of America's (RIAA's) defense of intellectual
property and feel that services such as Napster should be shut down,
according to a survey by PC Data Online.
Forty-five percent disagreed with the statement and 39 percent had
no position on the issue.
More than 57 percent believed that RIAA's defense of intellectual
property was admirable but that it was unrealistic to think that
the recording industry can control the free exchange of music.
Eleven percent disagreed and 32 percent had no position.
and...
OOOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN ---
Though the Napster case is at the center of the legal symphony,
shutting them down may not have that big of an effect on music
sharing and other file swapping. In fact, closing down Napster
may increase the rate at which song-seekers migrate to other
solutions such as Gnutella and FreeNet. While the course of
this case may or may not be bad news for a specific company
and the investors who backed it, will it really address the
larger issue of file sharing in a significant way?
http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/07/27/napster_shutdown/
But in felling Napster, the industry is digging an even
deeper grave for itself.
The record labels' only hope was to lose this court battle.
Now that they've won, they've really lost.
But by treating Napster as the copyright antichrist, the
industry is simply insuring that the vector of Internet
technological development will move rapidly toward a
lawsuit-proof, free-for-all distributed network of file-
sharing -- the very outcome the owners of intellectual
property wish to avoid. How stupid can you get?
and...
THERE IS NO POINT ---
The open source software solutions differ from Napster in a very
important way. There is no central point where users congregate
and share. There is no there there. "You'd have to shut down
the Internet to stop Gnutella or Freenet," according to a Linux
developer. "There's no main artery for the suits to tie off that
can stop the flow of information in a truly open system."
http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,37831,00.html
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