Peer-To-Peer News - The Week In Review – September 27th, '03

[SA_Dave]

Great stuff Jack!

The Recording Industry Association of America called Sharman's "newfound admiration for the importance of copyright law" ironic and "self-serving."

Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group declined to comment on Sharman's latest lawsuit.

I may detest Sharman, but as they say: what's good for the goose is good for the gander. First price-fixing, then pirating Sharman's software and now stealing Gartner's reports. What next?

Evan Cox, a partner with Covington & Burling in San Francisco who is not involved with the case, said the error most likely happened in one of two ways: Either Comcast matched the wrong customer with the IP address, or the recording industry requested information about the wrong IP address, which is usually more than nine digits.

Those evil ISP's are obfuscating the logs I tell you! They're inadmisable, throw them away and be done with it.

In an attempt to stimulate sales, Universal Music Group announced that it will cut prices for new CDs by 30 percent beginning October 1, but at this point that may be the equivalent of applying a band-aid to a decapitation.

Quote of the week material that!

The closing op-ed is very good.