Big Business is watching

By Mike on Wednesday 30 July 2003 at 10:35

It looks like the good ol’days of file sharing is drawing to a close, downloading music or movies could see a subpoena land on your door mat! Was reading this yesterday and felt a pang of sadness, half the fun of the innernet was to get one over on the corporate whores; destroying their grossly enlarged profits and saying f*ck you to big business in general. But inevitably things change and with more and more people using broadband connections from home THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.

But on the upside - Jamie Oliver’s new book has been leaked and is flooding around the e-mail circuit before its even hit the shops. For some strange reason this puts a smile on my face.

Power to the population...

7 comments:

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 at 12:29, Matt said:

Interesting article - yet more fuel for the fire that is my paranoia. I assume a 'spider' is some kind of program, not an actual arachnid - for a minute there I was really scared...
I was a bit wary of Jamie “you've got to tear the bathil” Oliver's leaked book - it could be full of hoax recipes where seemingly ordinary foodstuffs are combined, with vomitous consequences. Like oysters in red wine or something. All seems pretty safe though.

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 at 12:30, Mark Bell said:

Yep, it's a shame. We've got a static IP now as well, so we'd better be careful Wink

Still, something's got to change. They're never going to stamp out music piracy by behaving like a cornered animal and lashing out at random.

If the record companies could provide a paid-for service which was more reliable and easier to search than Kazaa, Gnutella et al, I'm betting a LOT of people would use that rather than downloading illegaly.

And when I say paid-for, I mean something like ITunes, where you pay a tiny fee (99 cents) per track, rather than paying 17 quid for a CD where you may not like most of the songs.

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 at 12:46, pAlmer said:

glad i'm not the only paranoid one, but have to say i didn't think jamie olivers book could be a hoax - trust nothing, know no one...

or somefink like that Wink


On Thursday 31 July 2003 at 13:28, pAlmer said:

Breath easy file-sharing people - there's hope yet!

On Thursday 31 July 2003 at 13:56, Mark Bell said:

Well that's a relief.

Although, as we speak they're probably developing something that keeps people alive long enough for the RIAA to sue them...

On Thursday 31 July 2003 at 14:12, kavi said:

but its not like ppl should just back off from buying cds in general...i still love buying cds, mp3s dont have covers or artwork etc. its the fact of owning it...though i will admit my download to buy ratio is slightly off.

On Thursday 31 July 2003 at 14:29, Mark Bell said:

I can honestly say that I've bought nearly all the stuff I've downloaded on CD afterwards. For me it's like an extended version of those little listening posts you get in record shops; the difference being you get to try out the tracks on your own system, in comfort.

Like you say Kavi, it's just nicer to have that package with all the lyrics and photos, than a few megs of data on my hard drive.

Plus, who wants to turn on their PC every time they want to listen to music? Not me...

However, some people prefer MP3's for whatever reason, and at the moment there's no real legal alternative to P2P.

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