“If you were publishing a magazine that was advertising stolen cars, processing payments for them and arranging delivery of them you’d expect to get a visit from the police wouldn’t you?”

The ISP’s arnt like publishing a magazine, that would involve creating content. What he is saying is “If a company sold paper to another company who advertised stollen cars for another company who delivered them, stollen by another company, shouldnt they go to jail????”

OFCORSE NOT YOU CRAZY ASS!

The music industry needs to get its head out of it own ass and start creating the best digital distibution system while it still can or else they will destroy itself in a battle they have already lost.

Surley alarm bells must start ringing when your sueing/attacking your own customers?

no? carry on doing the same thing then see what happens…

Lets see on-line commerce & the telecommunications industry burn itself over the ridiculously outrageous greed of the music & movie industry.

…..or how about those self-same companies just quit being the hypocrites they are and charge a fair price for their movies & music in the first place?

If we can’t just tell these greedy corps to go to hell (I gather many of them are making record profilts) then we ought to do what some enlightened countries do, accept that burners and discs will be used for copying and charge a (very tiny) additional sales tax to CD/DVD sales to go to supporting the poorest parts of the music & movie industry
(& not the most profitable robber barons in it).

It should also be pointed out that many of these companies are total hypocrites and have different divisions of the same company making computer discs & burners and other parts of that company either wholly or in partnership having music & movie connections.

The biggest thieves any artist ever faced is not the individual who shares & copys for personal use & not profit but the con-men in ‘the industry’ who take an outrageous share of the cake, leaving the genuine artist little.