[SA_Dave]

What a bumper issue!

Originally posted by multi
ffs..!
this is stupid....
master and slave in relation to devices is
got nothing to do with the slavery trade..

Didn't you know that Maxtor and Seagate fund sweat-shops in Africa?

'With free file sharing or free downloads, you might spend a lot of time but end up with bad quality files or broken tracks that are not burnable, or even worse, infected with viruses,' said Ms Yang.

'With a legitimate online service, you can download high quality files in a secure environment.'

Don't you hate those MP3 trojans? And those non-burnable WMA tracks which infest Napster?

"If you go the legal way, the record industry will support you," he said yesterday.

How sweet! Maybe when they're finished they'll "give you the reach-around." (to quote jcmd)

But this has been exactly the impact of the Net. By opportunistically grabbing free music, listeners operate under their own moral hazard, because now the record companies' lack of information about how people are using their music online means that listeners can shirk on their end of the bargain. So the Net offers a major opportunity to renege on buying music goods that are produced under moral hazard, and completely eliminate the risk listeners ordinarily would take by, say, buying CDs they cannot sample ahead of time. That's why the real problem is that the Net offers listeners insurance against the music industry itself. File sharing is not simply theft. Rather, file sharing is risk sharing.

Very interesting. There's no better resource for discovering music than the web and p2p.

Since September, the Recording Industry Association of America has sent out 400 warning letters, received affidavits from over 1,000 former file-users and more than 200 settlements, Agence France Presse reported Wednesday.

I'd like to meet these people who've given up on using files. I want telepathic powers too?!

Longhorn promises new methods of storing files, tighter links to the Internet, greater security and fewer reboots, Microsoft has said.

If this is the "pinnacle of innovation" you can count me out, thanks!

"There is no magic switch for vendors to stop users from downloading copyrighted content," Eisgrau says. "The Internet can be used and misused for hundreds if not thousands of purposes that are outside the control of software developers--or for that matter, ISPs. We don't hold the Post Office responsible for blackmailers and no ink producers have been accused of extortion."

Good point! Law enforcement and security agencies want to eavesdrop on encrypted communications, yet the USPO wasn't fined for not scannning parcels for biological agents.

It's almost as if they view Kazaa with its much larger market share as threatening to them, much as some smaller software companies view Microsoft (Corp.)," he said.

I'm sick of Sharman's self-important ramblings. They're still amusing, however naive they may be.