Re: [OS:N:] Who should control which IP, was: Questionaire about ...
"M. Fioretti" <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 09:47:44 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Johnnie Peters ([email protected]) wrote: > We seem to think it is our right to have a TV, radio, cell phone, > computer, etc. And to have all of them at once. Right on! > I know a kid that has > over 60 gig of downloaded mp3s. 60 GIG!!!!! Even without over pricing > this is a god awful lot of music. One thing I just don't understand, completely unrelated to the whole IP saga, is do these people ever *listen* to all of it at least once? How many days of non stop music is 60 GB MP3? > Since his dad found out about it he can only surf the internet when > dad is watching. I know he does it at friends also but you should > hear the screaming. Did dad scream just because he was not studying, or specifically because the kid had illegal stuff in the family PC? > You can compare the downloading of mp3s to the copying we did in the > 70's and 80's if you want. It is partly true but it was just not > possible to do it on the scale it is being done today. Legally, it is *exactly* the same thing: nobody cared because analog technology itself limited people, not because we were self conscious. Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ [WYSIWYG] Word processing may be an obsolete idea of the 1980s...no longer a necessity in the age of the Web and email Michael Stutz, The Linux Cookbook _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>