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P2P Dealt a blow

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xyle_one:
How is it bad? Companies make software with the sole intention to use it for illegal purposes, and you get mad when legislation is passed to stop it? If anything, this will be enough to get file sharing out of the public eye so that it will be something worthwhile again. No more kazaa-esque networks of kiddies sharing complete crap.

KernelPanic:

--- Quote from: xyle_one ---How is it bad? Companies make software with the sole intention to use it for illegal purposes, and you get mad when legislation is passed to stop it? If anything, this will be enough to get file sharing out of the public eye so that it will be something worthwhile again. No more kazaa-esque networks of kiddies sharing complete crap.
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The point is, Ford do not get sued when someone runs a small child down.

British American Tobacco are not held accountable when a smoker dies of lung  cancer.
H&K are not held accountable when a crazed gunman kills your Grandmother.

But when it comes to technology all rationality seems to go out of the window. Why?

xyle_one:
p2p software such as morpheus are created with the sole intention of sharing copyrighted material. That is software to facilitate illegal activity.

Smoking, i can agree with. However, there have been numerous lawsuits where the prosecution successfully won against the tobacco industry. Tobacco is also not marketed as something with the intent to kill you, even if they do, in fact, kill you. p2p apps are marketed as tools to download files illegally. Cars are not sold as tools of murder either. Guns are sold as tools of protection.

I think it really comes down to how they presented themselves. They fucked up, and now we all suffer. Like I said though, if anything this will "hopefully" take file sharing off the radar for a while, and those that aren't idiots about it can get back to really moving the technology forward.

KernelPanic:

--- Quote from: xyle_one ---
I think it really comes down to how they presented themselves. They fucked up, and now we all suffer. Like I said though, if anything this will "hopefully" take file sharing off the radar for a while, and those that aren't idiots about it can get back to really moving the technology forward.
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Perhaps so, the creator of Freenet and the head of the British Phonographic Industry said as much in a BBC Newsnight interview.

I'm actually no great proponent of copyright infringment but I do oppose governmental acts like this against free enterprise. The problem is, some of these P2P applications are used mostly for legal activities whilst others are not but they are all placed under the same legal jeopardy and very few of them market themselves as a tool for subverting the law.

Kintaro:
Funny you mention Tobacco. Someone in australia sucsesfully sued and won for getting lung cancer! Hell I might do that when I get lung cancer!

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