Hrmm…I hear that the lawsuit against napster was officially passed today. That they are responsible for the illigal repoduction of every bands music and so they should be shutdown. Well…Doesnt this maen that Computer retailers are responsible for the hacking of webpages? Shouldnt they stop selling computers with HDD’s to prevent people dl’ing the programs that cause this? What about the actual companies that are selling the programs that encode mp3s? Why arn’t they also held responsibple?
As an analogy, does it not mean that the comapnies that sell guns are responsible for every killing that is caused by those guns and that they also should stop selling the guns? Guns are licensed, does this mean if we license mp3 users that they would suddenly become legal?
‘Course any idiot would realise that licensing does not prevent pirating, it just becomes slightly less accessible to the Windows user as it shifts underground. So how bout it America (land of the free)? How about giving everyone an equal chance and allowing mp3 sharing to go on with permits and see what happens?