Napster who?
p2pnet.net News View:- While the media splash headlines on Napster II’s latest wasted effort to cash in on the insignificant corporate online music business, the Big Four record label cartel is still busily trying to sue people into buying its product.
Its RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is making itself look ridiculous as it repeatedly tries to quell p2p file sharing by suing its customers. On top of that, it has egg all over its face as it tries to sue a deceased, 83-year-old grandmother.
Only in America.
“Digital files cannot be made uncopyable any more than water can be made not wet,” Bruce Schneier once pointed out, and as Cherry Lane Digital ceo Jim Griffin said recently, the labels, “cling to their pursuit of this notion of control and calling those who do not comply thieves, and in doing so they leave billions on the table that should be divided fairly amongst creators and rights holders.”
Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man states in a verse which might have been written for the leaders of the entertainment industry, “Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is ………. do you, Mister Jones?”
The cupidity and stupidity of the mainstream corporate entertainments industry is truly, staggeringly awesome.
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