Posted by Don M. on 09/30/05 17:44

"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1128087919.276761.177550@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> fred-bloggs wrote:
> > Vegas@WhosYourDaddy.com (Vegas) wrote in news:jdY_e.40843$sx2.23902
> > @fed1read02:
> >
> > > R.I.P.
> > >
> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/p2p_networks_darken/
> >
> > just shows you shouldn't *believe* what you read on the internet
> >
> I read the article, and I'm fascinated that such an informed piece
> still missed the big story. As far as the media is concerned, WinMX
> was a network run little (if at all) different from Grokster, by guys
> who encouraged piracy - and now it too has fallen. I've seen no
> mention of WinMX being a network initially promulgated by guys who
> don't even encourage you to use their software (let alone for piracy),
> and not a word about the fact that rumors of its shutdown are
> exagerrated. Has anybody seen a media report aknowledging that WinMX
> users are still on-line and sharing?
>
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When one looks at past reporting by the mainstream media reporters who cover these stories
and read their use of phrases like "illegal downloading", "stealing", "piracy" (that's
without quoting the industry), one can tell those reporters are obviously biased and it's
easy to understand why they would want to leave WinMX or other p2p for dead. Maybe they
need to be in good graces with the industry for their big scoops, or they're on the
payroll, or they're all joined at the hip, I don't know. I know they're not even neutral
when it comes to "illegal p2p filesharing applications" (how they reported at times, even
before the Supreme Court ruling, which BTW did not rule them illegal).


Don

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