if true one would think that all cash might buy a little access to the lawmakers in washington who now sell their votes regularly to the riaa and the mpaa. it seems like the volunteers in the p2p community are the doing the heavy lifting each day trying to inform citizens of the philosophical importance in having a robust system of information sharing uncontrolled - and uncontrollable - by any state, institution or corporate entity.
the figures for kazaa indicate that this one company alone could outspend the riaa, mpaa and ira
combined in dc lobbying, guaranteeing a place at the table, maybe even at the head of the table, for those copyright sit downs they’re always having for everyone else.
so either the figures are highly suspect or the companies are near suicidal in their avoidance of the copyright conferences here in washington, belgium and elsewhere.
if it were me, and i had that kind of filesharing loot, after i had stocked my swimming pool with a groovy collection of exotic runway models, every next dollar would go to making life thoroughly miserable for any official standing in the way of peer-to-peer.
nobody can call me shallow.
- js.