A Report from the File Sharing Experiment

[mwiner]

http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/sharing.html

Cashing In On File Sharing

A Report from the File Sharing Experiment

Machiavelli would have been proud. The Recording Industry of America has raped and pillaged its heart out to put the fear of God into many unsavvy Internet users and the message, 'We know where you live' to would-be file sharers. File sharing has now become taboo to many; those 87 year-old women who mortgaged their houses to pay settlements aren't likely to bother us again, and thanks to the RIAA, many 11 year old girls will now grow up knowing that if you share music, somebody's going to come and hurt mommy and daddy........