Good-bye Internet …
p2pnet.net News:- The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled p2p file-sharing applications are legal and, “When an appeals court upholds a decision such as this, that’s generally it – pack up your briefcases and go home,” as MP3.com tech editor Eliot Van Buskirk says in his CNET Insider column.
But the members of the Big Four record label believe they’re a law unto themselves and are currently desperately trying to get the US Supreme Court to turn the decision around.
“The way things stand now, the law hates the player but not the game,” says Van Buskirk. “If the labels get their way, the law will hate the player and the game, and that just isn’t right when some people are playing by the rules.
“This isn’t just about music. If the Supreme Court overturns the lower courts’ decision, the Internet will become unrecognizable. Seriously – you’ll be able to say good-bye to e-mail, FTP, and maybe even DSL. Why? Because most of the Internet will be illegal.
“If the RIAA has its way, any company that facilitates a data connection between two users will be held accountable for the actions of those users … In other words, we’d all be surfing on a walled-in version of the Internet subject to censor and control – sort of like the early AOL.”
If the labels succeed in outlawing p2p, what’s next? E-mail? FTP? HTTP? Instant messaging? – Van Buskirk asks, adding:
“All of these protocols can be used to trade illegal files. Banning P2P would be the start of one of those notorious slippery slopes. Eventually, computers would come to resemble televisions, washing machines, and other devices with a limited set of capabilities. We’d have lost control of our machines.”
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See:-
open, fluid, and alive – ‘Laws should hate the player, not the game,‘ CNETÂ News, November 15, 2004
November 19th, 2004 at 1:51 am
This is about the dumbest thing Riaa has tried yet..I say all of us put a law suit on them for invading our pc’s with out our consent.Anyone with me?