OT: RIAA using kiddie porn to try and shut down P2P networks...

[JohnL]

It seems that RIAA will do just about anythingt to try and shut down file sharing networks. Now they're telling the government that P2P networks are full of child pornography and that children are likely to be exposed to it, in the hopes of getting the government to take action against them.

Washington Post article



Post Edited (10-09-03 02:50)

[Ash]

Imagine a man with a rifle pointed at a dog.

The dog has its back against the wall and is growling furiously and gnashing its teeth with its spittle flying.

That dog is the RIAA.

I predict that that entire greedy organization will one day go belly up.

It's all about money money money to them.

Oh yeah....the man shoots the dog...drags it's carcass behind him and throws it into a furnace.

LOL!!!



Post Edited (10-09-03 04:58)

[Mr_Vindictive]

I agree with the RIAA that there is the risk of running into some type of illegal porn on a P2P network.  That is to be expected.  But to use this as a means to shut down P2Ps!?  No.  Wrong.

I do believe that P2Ps such as Kazaa and Morpheus will eventually be shut down.  It will be left up to other services such as Direct Connect to keep the sharing alive.

[raj]

The RIAA & most of Ye other Olde Media don't understand the radically different nature of the internet.  Shut down one P2P network, and another one will pop up.  Go after the ones in the U.S., and ones in foreign lands will pop up.

I don't pirate (though as a poor student I did tape many of my friends albumns; ones I liked I wound up buying).  The question isn't should artists & production crews get paid for their work, rather the question is how to pay them.  That's what the RIAA should be putting its efforts into.