- Re: Who Will Last Longer , The Internet And P2P Or The RIAA ?
- Posted by tyberius on June 26th, 2003
"FunkyDevil" <qs8rzr001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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Those of you who live in the United States read this page:
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- Posted by David F. Cox on June 27th, 2003
Once in England there was common ground. People could graze their
sheep, exercise their dogs, let their children play. The sheep grazers did
not like their sheep being attacked by dogs. The dog owners did not like
their dogs being shot for attacking sheep. The people with children did not
like their children playing in dog and sheep excrement. Nobody liked the
people who dug up the turf and carried it away.
They all complained. Laws were passed. Now there is very little common
ground for sheep, dogs or children.
The RIAA is on the side of law. The dung spread by spammers and the damage
done by thieves will ensure that the Internet, as we know and love it,
will die long before the RIAA.
There will always be song.
As old men you read:
Once the Internet was common ground ...
- Posted by suntzu on June 28th, 2003
David F. Cox wrote:
tragedy of the commons, we get it. no need to get all overly dramatic
about it.
the internet as we know and love it might die for any number of reasons,
including, but not limited to, the greed of orginizations such as the RIAA.
that doesn't mean there will always be a media industry run by
money-hungry bastards that fail to add any real value to the products
they profit from. there was song before the RIAA. there will be song
after.
- Posted by tyberius on June 28th, 2003
All good things must come to an end.
The wild west ended when they started putting fences all over the place and
getting tougher on people with guns.
Well, it's been fun living in the digital wild west.
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- Posted by Jerome Newton on June 28th, 2003
It's history and largely superseded not only by the Enclosure Acts, but also
by the march of progess.
It remains to be seen, whether the converse is true.
I doubt it. The Internet was set up to be a robust communications system
which could survive a global nuclear war. The RIAA was not.
But, actually the Internet will continue to exist whatever the RIAA do.
Not at all. Originally, it was the province of academics only. It only
became global once Tim Berners-Lee devised the concept of the World Wide
Web.
JN
