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Posted by spodosaurus on 09/26/05 16:28
FatKat wrote:
> spodosaurus wrote:
>
>>FatKat wrote:
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>>>spodosaurus wrote:
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>>>>Saul Levy wrote:
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>>>>>You ARE in pain!
>>>>>
>>>>>Saul Levy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Make sure to let us know when Canada becomes the 51st State, Saul (hint:
>>>> don't believe your cell mate next time).
>>>>
>>>
>>>What's the point of all this jingoism? So what if WinMX was created in
>>>one country and not another? It created a network for moving data from
>>>country to country, regardless of the country it was produced in or
>>>where in the world it first entered the network.
>>>
>>
>>Well, Saul took issue with someone complaining that the rest of the
>>world has to suffer when P2P networks get infected by RIAA because the
>>US won't reign in RIAA's abuse of the legal system.
>
>
> That justifies taking a thread into the realm of flamewar? Some idiot
> makes a pointless comment about nationalism and somebody else makes a
> reciprocally pointless comment about nationalism? Saul, as off-base
> and misinformed as he was, didn't introduce politics to this thread -
> I've tried erasing national lines from the subject but apparently a few
> posters are resisting that.
What's the fun of Usenet if you can't, periodically, get involved in
flaming and trolling? It's a guilty pleasure...
>
>>when
>>they know, and we know, and it has been shown repeatedly, that people
>>who download music also BUY more music than any other group!
>
>
> I find this hard to believe because so many people who DL can barely
> bring themselves to share what they DL.
When you're talking about statistics, though, you end up comparing two
populations, not individuals from those populations. The numbers stand up.
>
>>There are a few rotten apples in the crowd, but overall the recording
>>industry is making record sales and record profits.
>
>
> Which proves what? That industries make a profit? That's the
> cornerstone of western civilization - not just American.
Yet restricting access to artistic works based on economic bullying is
not a cornerstone of civilisation...
> That
> industries can afford to allow file-sharing? Not if the spike in
> profits coincides at all with the industry's crackdown on P2P.
It doesn't. If I was really into this conversation I'd compile a brief
list of articles that I've read. Unfortunately, I'm not all that into
it. However, if YOU are, you shouldn't have a hard time finding the
data. Most of it is freely accessible online, or at least the abstracts are.
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