Update on file-sharer Grokster
I had thought that Grokster, the file-sharing giant that lost a key Supreme Court case last summer, was done. According to this article in the NYT, Grokster has now agreed to a settlement to completely discontinue distribution of its file sharing software.
I kinda have to agree with the entertainment companies on the whole music file sharing thing. While I'm definitely in favor of First Amendment freedoms, I don't necessarily agree that we should all be able to exchange music. I know the record companies and musicians make a ton of money off the public anyway, but it's still a copyright violation to give it away for free. I don't equate music with "information" ( I feel the same way about movies).
I kinda have to agree with the entertainment companies on the whole music file sharing thing. While I'm definitely in favor of First Amendment freedoms, I don't necessarily agree that we should all be able to exchange music. I know the record companies and musicians make a ton of money off the public anyway, but it's still a copyright violation to give it away for free. I don't equate music with "information" ( I feel the same way about movies).
posted by Jeremy and Ashley Wood at 5:37 PM
1 Comments:
agreed, sure. BUT grokster and its cousins are made to share files, not music files. it's that so many use it to share so much copyrighted material in violation of copyright law. in other words, p2p software doesn't break copyright, people do. what about all the legitimate use of file-sharing software, use it was designed for in the first place? this is what we lose. this is what the net was made for. i think what we might agree on is that we need a system, a software, a regime that allows file-sharing but that regulates copyright-protected content distribution.
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