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April 04, 2006
File sharing and legal trouble
BBC News online has an article about how music industry middlemen are fighting to sue people for sharing tunes they bought (or got from somebody else). The problem is apparently big enough to eat into sales and profits.
What's file sharing going to be like a few years from now? Will home bandwidth increase by a factor of 10 over the next 10 years? If so, the legislation is going to take us in the direction of drug legislation now, except that children will be sharing movies, music, and video games rather than getting high.
I can imagine the police knocking on my door to lead me away to jail because one of the three kids downloaded a cracked version of some recently released movie. That said, maybe I'll be unemployable by then and won't even be able to afford normal wireless Internet access.
Posted by Mark at April 4, 2006 08:45 PM
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