Orwell wrote:
lau wrote:
Orwell wrote:
And there certainly are organizations who would like for torrents to be illegal in general.
I'm unsure what "organizations" you mean, here.
The various pro-copyright groups which exerted significant lobbying pressure to try to shut down Pirate Bay. Now, I disapprove of piracy and much of what Pirate Bay did was just straight-up piracy, but P2P technology really can't discriminate between someone sharing the latest Ubuntu or pirating new movie releases. The folks involved in the court case against Pirate Bay would probably prefer to just get rid of torrents as a whole, not caring (or perhaps not knowing) about the perfectly legitimate uses they have.
I totally agree with everything you say here.
In regard especially to the music and film industries, there seem to be two camps at present. There are pirates, who seem to think they should have everything for nothing, and don't seem to care that the artists won't get paid. On the other hand, you have the people who want to be "honest", and meekly bow down to the strictures of DRM.
Maybe the true solution is that these industries go the same way as any industry that has outlived its time. I can't say I can foretell the future - but such attempts to outlaw torrents just strike me as the meaningless death throes of a soon-to-be-extinct beast.
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Kamran Nazeer
31 Dec 2009, 9:37 pm
