On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:42:30 -0600, Curtis wrote: >I guess the grinding question of my story, and the story I have linked >here is: Should technological advances and the sharing of knowledge, >via the internet, be protected by the law of Corporate Copyright? I >have no problem with someone coming up with an original idea and >profiting from it. Hell, its the Hungarian...err...American dream. >But, should we allow, the people who have all the money, to tell us that >we can't share or copy software, on the chance that someone else may >profit from it? Every new album I've bought in the past three years I only bought because I downloaded most of it ahead of time. I've been burned enough times by albums that had one good song on them, and a bunch of crap. The RIAA isn't losing money to pirates, it's losing money to stupidity. Case in point, Metallica vs Napster. Metallica found a bunch of people who were fans of their music, and sued them. Anybody with even a passing familiarity with marketing knows that a list of tens of thousands of email addresses that /you know for a fact/ are for fans of a specific group is priceless. Cut a deal with Napster, and start direct marketing these people. Seems obvious to me. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005