Monday, June 27, 2005
Sharing isn't always the right thing to do
The ruling today by the US Supreme Court puts back peer-to-peer networking significantly. Whilst Sony weren't responsible for the illegal copying performed by users of Betamax machines in 1984, the creators of file-sharing networks are responsible for illegal activity conducted over their networks. Is this a case of corporatism versus creativity, or is it unfair to stereotype 'the men in suits'? If the statistic of 90% of peer-to-peer network traffic being illegal activity, perhaps the judges were right? Incidentally, on Saturday the Guardian had a detailed article on the perils of letting your children loose on file-sharing networks, with some useful statistics.
// posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 6:43 pm 
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