Recording Industry + P2P file sharing = Friends?
 

Interesting developments are going on in this area, the tide may be turning slightly.....

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,14 ... _tophead_2

Four years after it shuttered the original Napster with a legal assault, the recording industry is taking a different approach to online file-swapping: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Recording companies have begun taking steps to legitimize the peer-to-peer technology that lets computer users share songs, video and other files with one another online.

..Around 330 million tracks were purchased online last year from online stores such as Apple's iTunes. But around 5 billion were downloaded from free file-sharing networks, Goodman said.

Meanwhile, recording companies have sued 11,700 computer users for file-swapping. Of those, 2,500 cases have been settled, typically for about $3,000 each....

..."When it comes down to it, why is somebody going to pay for something they can get for free?" said Mac Padilla, 21, a student who lives in Los Angeles...

freak:

All thats going to happen now is legislation is going to pass that makes them legal if you subscribe to them. That makes baby jesus cry cry:

Re: Recording Industry + P2P file sharing = Friends?
 

[quote="mr.miyagi":a4cef]
Recording companies have begun taking steps to legitimize the peer-to-peer technology that lets computer users share songs, video and other files with one another online.
[/quote:a4cef]

ITS A TRAP
[img]http://www.cswu.cz/characters/img/char/ackbar_l.jpg[/img]

Re: Recording Industry + P2P file sharing = Friends?
 

[quote=anntihero]ITS A TRAP
[img]http://www.cswu.cz/characters/img/char/ackbar_l.jpg[/img][/quote:aab5c]

Re: Recording Industry + P2P file sharing = Friends?
 

[quote="Sgt. Paine":7776c][quote=anntihero]ITS A TRAP
[img]http://www.cswu.cz/characters/img/char/ackbar_l.jpg[/img][/quote:7776c][/quote:7776c]

hahaha well said

Re: Recording Industry + P2P file sharing = Friends?
 

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":06de0][quote="Sgt. Paine":06de0][quote=anntihero]ITS A TRAP
[img]http://www.cswu.cz/characters/img/char/ackbar_l.jpg[/img][/quote:06de0][/quote:06de0]

hahaha well said[/quote:06de0]

Nice to see some well rounded, individual, intelligent responses from you guys, makes me proud...

oOo:

fine miyagi

it IS a trap

[img]http://www.cswu.cz/characters/img/char/ackbar_l.jpg[/img]

"p2p" means "penis2penis" in the gay community.

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":ab889]"p2p" means "penis2penis" in the gay community.[/quote:ab889]

and "m4m" means "man4man" too

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":4abd1][quote="Mr.Buttocks":4abd1]"p2p" means "penis2penis" in the gay community.[/quote:4abd1]

and "m4m" means "man4man" too[/quote:4abd1]


calmdown:

[quote="mr.miyagi":ebb2b]http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/rusty/rusty.html[/quote:ebb2b]

ROFL

were those images stolen from a book? or were they actually made for the Rusty story?

diiiee.