On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:35:12PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> writes: > > Music piracy worked the same way until recently. But now anybody can > > cut a CD, and it's rife. Add on Napster and its descendents, and you > > have a huge subculture that's (IMHO) ripping off artists right and left. > > I quiz my son and his napsterizing peers, and not a one of them has ever > > made a serious attempt to pay an artist for tunes downloaded. Yes, in > > most cases it's probably not possible -- but they've never even tried. > But Napster has been essentially shut down; and any centralized > pirating operation is likely to be in the future. Only individual, > person-to-person, piracy is hard to stop, and it's also small-scale. And arguably protected by fair use. No one can claim this kind of trading is new, either; the previous generation traded tapes, not MP3s. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp