The Napster debacle
Let’s talk industry standard. How about saying that no one can run Microsoft Windows until it has 100% uptime. Redmond would laugh in your face. 100% is not a possibility. The thing that pisses me off the most about it? The way the RIAA has painted this, any software manufacturer is now liable for the use of its software. So, anyone who serves a child porn site over Microsoft IIS? Sue them? No. Sue Microsoft.
Welcome to the Brave New World. I quote Henry VIII: “The first thing to do is to kill all the lawyers.” Sans the ones with heads on their shoulders. There are a few good ones out there but JESUS.
July 13, 2001 at 4:46 PM
The RIAA cronies can't go and sue the better part of the American populace for using Napster, so they go one level up.
Napster has been and gone, bludgeoned with a club by the corporate music industry.