Watch out they're coming for you...

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I saw the movie industries ad about pirating movies and I think they are taking the best approach.

They assume that people are basically good and want to do the nice thing.

If you are on Kazaa check up on your account a large list of Kazaa users are being served subpeonas in preparation for the lawsuit.

[Entsuropi]

The cunning masterplan:

I am in britain. IF the RIAA wants to sue me, well, they can try. Anyone wants music without getting slammed, drop me a line and i'll do a upload to you on a IM of some description

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

uh... it's not MY responsibility to seek out the subpoena they're trying to serve.

Assuming they want to, which I doubt.

[JP Dogberry]

True, the "Information wants to be free" argument doesn't make sense. But it does sound good.  I would go into the whole freedom of information is the cause of all human achievement argument, but I won't, because I'm lazy. And because I'll just sound like an idiot, trying to argue somehting I don't really understand anyway.

Being in Australia, I don't think the RIAA is going to sue me either, or would really want to, considering the limited amount of pirated music I have. I'm not one of those morons who justs leeches alld ay and never buys a CD. i have problems with those people.   I have no problem with downloading itself, but I hardly ever do it, since File Sharers like to take up all my beloved bandwidth on poor, humble winmodem. That makes it difficult to do much else.

Did I just contradict myself? If I did, chalk it up to a change in opinion over tha past eleven hours.

[EUOL]

Stealing from the RIAA is like stealing crack from a dealer.  Yeah, you get something for free, but you're still perpetuating a rather vile industry.  My opinion is that if you want free music, you should go download indie stuff from Amazon or mp3.com.  Make the RIAA change its ways by invoking the age-old punishment of shunning.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

heh, crack.

I think that's one of the most original thoughts I've heard on the subject. I will have to consider it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Well, isn't this nifty.
CNN is running a story AT THIS INSTANT about how iTUnes is now availbe for windows 2k and xp platforms.
YAY!

Naturally, you can get more info at http://www.apple.com/itunes/