Comments on: US Register backs INDUCE

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:28:05 +0000

Like the other moronic laws regarding p2p, I’m sure this will pass – and damage our ability to make new products…. I mean why not, every thing else is already messed up.

Here’s reality though – straight and honest:

p2p users ‘are’ customers too – we may not buy as much as you’d like us to but ‘MOST’ of what we buy we’ve sampled on p2p. We, as a group, were ‘never’ big media buyers.. games, movies, music, whatever – yes, p2p has allowed us to be ‘much’ more specific with what we’re going to buy because we are ruling out the garbage by ‘trying’ it on p2p first.

Yep, there are ‘many’ p2p users whom purchase ‘nothing’ but guess what – they ‘NEVER’ would have anyway and the ‘losses’ have all been sMoKe and MiRrOrs – there have been no ‘real’ losses from p2p with one clear-cut exception – the idiots who burn the media and ’sell’ it to people at flea markets, whom would have likely otherwise bought the legit copy if a cheaper illegal one was not around – THAT is the area they need to worry about and not p2p itself.

The laws today are coming close to making it illegal to own a vcr or even a cassette recorder – they will soon make it illegal to have audio-input on computers and remove all mic-input’s on home stereo’s. DVD-R and CV-R’s are going to be illegal except for major corporation use.

It’s sad, but America is becoming a harsh dictatorship…. and I’m starting to wonder why I live here…. sad sad sad.

_-Jile-_
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~~~From the Direct Connect P2P~~~

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:49:52 +0000

the webcast of the hearings held yesterday are available here http://files.dmusic.com/video/induce.mov – requires quicktime or quicktime alternative.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:53:13 +0000

So, we can sue vacuum tube manufacturers becuase you can make a memory array out of (many, many) tubes, we can sue the manufacturers of paper and pencil, because you can copy something down. We can sue your parents, because they had a child with a good memory who can remember lots of copyrighted information.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:04:31 +0000

Ok Guys, this is my first post, since the revelation that imesh is now going to be used for ‘legitimate buisness’ within the years out, now I have a question.

If imesh is going to become a ‘legal’ P2P, then how can the senate release a bill that outlaws P2P activity as illegal, when imesh will be in buisness with licensed content directly from the record companies?

This situation doesn’t make sense, it’s strangley ironic if that’s the right word.
Lets look at a diagram:

People share music illegally -> Music industry attack sharers/downloaders. -> that doesnt work so they get senate to help them. ->senate attempt bill that infringes P2P companies -> while the companies are trying to license content on P2P that will be a technology outlawed at years out, thus losing the industry more money.

I’m only bringin this up as the senate constantly references the betamax case, now in that ‘the VHS can be used for legitimate and infringing works’ hmmmmmm, apparantly so can P2P so by making it illegal, ur effectively destroying a new buisness model, contradicting yourselves, and making yourselves look typically american. (Im English BTW)

Elliot