Comment Sure, shut it down; (Score 1) 674
I'm serious. You can't win every battle in a war, and the RIAA is determined to make Napster look more malicious than Tim McVeigh. The fact is, the RIAA has many millions of dollars to continually fight Napster, and look-alikes. Napster, on the other hand, does not.
The internet will eventually decide whether this is gonna stay or go, because it depends solely on volunteer effort. If Napster is shut down, just watch a clone spring up designed for sharing renamed 'zip' files. Or anything else. The fact is, even with dozens/hundreds of lawsuits involving Warez sites, Warez is still around, and still very easy to get with a high-bandwidth connection.
Warez is probably a lot worse than 'bootleg' mp3s, but not according to the RIAA, I'm sure. I do hope, though, that Senator Hatch kicks some butt this way. ;-)
The internet will eventually decide whether this is gonna stay or go, because it depends solely on volunteer effort. If Napster is shut down, just watch a clone spring up designed for sharing renamed 'zip' files. Or anything else. The fact is, even with dozens/hundreds of lawsuits involving Warez sites, Warez is still around, and still very easy to get with a high-bandwidth connection.
Warez is probably a lot worse than 'bootleg' mp3s, but not according to the RIAA, I'm sure. I do hope, though, that Senator Hatch kicks some butt this way.
