The RIAA wins the first battle (too bad for them they've already lost the war.) A San Francisco judge has ordered Napster be shut down (at least) until the outcome of the trial is known. The RIAA has to put up a $5 million dollar bond which will be awarded to Napster to compensate for loss of business if they end up winning the trial. Here's the slashdot thread. Here's the Washington Post blurb. Here's the wired story. Here's one of the many boycott the RIAA sites already in action.
The irony here is that one profit monger, the RIAA, is trying to kill another profit monger (Napster) and the result is going to be the rise of a radically distributed NONPROFIT ORIENTED file sharing network that literally cannot be stopped. Funny where greed will get you as move toward the frictionless marketplace.
Things are moving forward on many fronts as we speak. Over at Hack the Planet the discussion is really heating up about Jeff Kandt's plan for enabling the direct, voluntary payment of musicians (tipping.) Check out the action in the ensuing discussion. Jeff has changed the internet rallying cry from "the internet treats censorship like damage and routes around it" to "The internet treats greed like damage and routes around it." Cut out the middleman, as Dave Winer keeps exhorting us. Anyway, he's about to take his plan to a wider audience for another round of crypto vetting. Combined with a Gnutella or Freenet distributed file sharing network, I think this could really happen. I truely believe that musical artists can make money from voluntary payments. The RIAA, on the other hand, cannot. I hope that Dave Winer picks up on Jeff's ideas, and either promotes them, or something similar, in conjunction with his new Userland Radio. This is really the start of the big change. Wes Felter's headline today reads: "the singularity is coming" and I think I know what he's talking about. Hold on tight, things might get a little stranger from here on in.
Is it lame to add comments to your own posts? Oh well. Here's that letter that Jeff Kandt sent out. Kill the RIAA. Apparently this thing is flying around the IETF discussion lists. I like it. We'll see what happens.
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The irony here is that one profit monger, the RIAA, is trying to kill another profit monger (Napster) and the result is going to be the rise of a radically distributed NONPROFIT ORIENTED file sharing network that literally cannot be stopped. Funny where greed will get you as move toward the frictionless marketplace.
Things are moving forward on many fronts as we speak. Over at Hack the Planet the discussion is really heating up about Jeff Kandt's plan for enabling the direct, voluntary payment of musicians (tipping.) Check out the action in the ensuing discussion. Jeff has changed the internet rallying cry from "the internet treats censorship like damage and routes around it" to "The internet treats greed like damage and routes around it." Cut out the middleman, as Dave Winer keeps exhorting us. Anyway, he's about to take his plan to a wider audience for another round of crypto vetting. Combined with a Gnutella or Freenet distributed file sharing network, I think this could really happen. I truely believe that musical artists can make money from voluntary payments. The RIAA, on the other hand, cannot. I hope that Dave Winer picks up on Jeff's ideas, and either promotes them, or something similar, in conjunction with his new Userland Radio. This is really the start of the big change. Wes Felter's headline today reads: "the singularity is coming" and I think I know what he's talking about. Hold on tight, things might get a little stranger from here on in.
- jim 7-27-2000 3:31 pm
Is it lame to add comments to your own posts? Oh well. Here's that letter that Jeff Kandt sent out. Kill the RIAA. Apparently this thing is flying around the IETF discussion lists. I like it. We'll see what happens.
- jim 7-28-2000 4:46 pm