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Hammers and mercury (Alan Wexelblat)

Yes, you've been saying the same thing over and over Alan. So have a few others. However, they still need to be said. It is unfortunate, but true. Someday, perhaps, enough people will "get it" that we won't have to say it anymore.

Hammers and mercury (Alan Wexelblat): "

Way back in the dark ages, when the Cartel decided to sue Napster into oblivion, I suggested that this was the effective equivalent of smashing a blob of mercury with a hammer. Nice noise, flashy splash but at the end you have just about exactly as much mercury as you did before. Except now it's scattered all over creation.

Continuing this winning tradition, the Cartel have hammered at KaZaa, BitTorrent, and other large P2P networks. As if smashing the networks would somehow answer consumer demand. Sigh.

Anyway, Paul Roberts has a brief piece in PC World reporting on a Pew Internet & American Life Project study of this. The study points out that file sharing is moving out from traditional P2P networks into email, IM, and even (*gasp*) IPods. Apparently this surprises researchers because the iPod isn't 'designed' to support this behavior. May I point these esteemed individuals, once again, to Gibson's dictum?

I'm starting to sound too much like a broken record, even for my own tastes. Saying the same thing over and over for seven years is dull.

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(Via Copyfight.)

Posted by mikki on March 25, 2005 08:51 PM |