[MLB-WIRELESS] Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?

[Barry Park]

And from Slashdot today, a small piece that hints that US cable Internet
companies are introducing caps to help the RIAA et al happy by making things
sucky for peer-to-peer.
- Barry

Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?
Technology: NEWS ANALYSIS
By Jane Black in New York
Jon, a computer programmer, is exactly the kind of music lover the Recording
Industry Association of America has in mind as it tries to shut down music
file-swapping services such as KaZaA. He has downloaded about 5,000 songs
off the Internet in the past two years. The vast majority, Jon concedes,
were pirated copies, including the latest album from rapper Eminem.
"I only do it because it's free," he says matter-of-factly. "I don't do it
to sample new music before I buy, like Napster always used to say."
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/020612/tc200206121108_1.html



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