Dumping on your own doorstep
p2p news / p2pnet: Really bad anti-p2p decisions by various elements of the corporate p2p industry are having radically opposite than intended effects.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) introduced p2p file sharing to the world at large when it started its ridiculous sue ‘em all marketing campaign to try to frighten people into buying product. And it’s continuing its sterling efforts by trying to stomp Russian p2p site AllofMP3.com.
Sharman Networks, the owner of Kazaa, the world’s most unpopular commercial p2p application, is further estranging customers and blackening its already tarnished name by suing p2p site p2pnet for alleged libel. Moreover, in the process, it’s driven off Ten Mile Tide, which used to describe itself as the Kazaa poster band.
And in its ongoing efforts to crush BT sites, the MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) attempt to wipe The Pirate Bay from the face of the map, “has doubled its number of visitors,” says The Local, quoting site tracker alexa.com, quoted by Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.
“Figures released by Alexa.com, a US-based Internet monitoring company, showed that traffic to the Pirate Bay had doubled since the site reopened, Dagens Nyheter said,” the story says.
As the EFF’s John Perry Barlow says, “These are aging industries run by aging men, and they’re up against 17-year-olds who have turned themselves into electronic Hezbollah because they resent the content industry for its proprietary practices. And I don’t have a question about who’s going to win that one eventually.”
He also says they’re made up of, “mean sons of bitches” who’ve been, “figuring out ways of ripping off audiences and artists for centuries, “you guys have managed to buy every major legislative body on the planet, and the courts are even with you. So you’ve done a great job there and you should congratulate yourself. But … at you’re up against a dedicated foe that is younger and smarter that you are and will be alive when you’re dead. You’re 55 years old and these kids are 17 and they’re just smarter than you.”
Also See:
trying to stomp – AllofMP3.com statement, June 6, 2006
tarnished name – Free speech in Canada, June 2, 2006
driven off – Ten Mile Tide backs p2pnet, June 10, 2006
The Local – Police raid doubles Pirate Bay’s popularity, June 11, 2006
electronic Hezbollah – Barlow versus Glickman, June 12, 2006
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June 12th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
“The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) introduced p2p file sharing to the world at large when it started its ridiculous sue ‘em all marketing campaign…”
Actually it was when they went after Napster. Just my opinion.
June 12th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
“electronic Hezbollah” so now we are akin to terrorists? Give me a break… truly pathetic.