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| From | Michael Coxe <michael@audities.net> |
| Subject | Re: BREAKING NEWS: File-Swapping College Students Settle With RIAA |
| Date | Sat, 3 May 2003 17:26:06 -0700 |
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Michael McCartney wrote:
>Jordan?s out-of-work father Andy, who owns thousands of records
>and CDs, says the fine will burden his family. "The RIAA says
>that they wanted to teach these kids and their families a lesson,"
>he told the Times. "The lesson we learned is that we will never,
>ever buy another product from any of those companies again.
>That's the lesson we're going to tell everyone."
The crux of the entire situation - the cartel mantra:
The customer is my enemy and my competitors are my friends.
Now these guys were stupidly running Napster-like servers
(centralized database - newer peer-to-peer uses decentralized
database models) and were easy pickings, but targeting college
students will drive peer-to-peer software developers (ie college
students) to build cryptography directly into the software.
Big Media could be digging it's own grave, though I fear a
partnership between the Patriot Act loonies, the DCMA/RIAA crowd
and Hollywood could soon have us all under house arrest.
- michael
NP: Thomas & Richard Frost ----- wow...
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