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Old 04-11-02, 04:45 PM   #4
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"We're going to find that people labeled as hackers, thieves and pirates will convert and change patterns to pay for content," said Kevin Bermeister, chief executive of Altnet, which acts as an intermediary for KaZaA, the most popular file-trading software, and organizations that want to distribute legitimate materials.
Stop me before I download again.

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"At a time when the public is especially hungry for good corporate citizens," said Carey Sherman, a lawyer for the Recording Industry Association of America, "it's surprising that any legitimate interest would consider giving financial support to a pirate service like KaZaA that illegally traffics in the copyrighted works of others."
This guy has it all wrong. What the public is really hungry for is to see Martha Stewart doing the perp walk on the 6 o'clock news. Bad corporate citizens merely confirm what we all suspected anyway.
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