P2P'ers at work- beware . .

[Dudesky]

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/22...stry_rele.html

IFPI -- the international equivalent of the RIAA -- has released a piece of software that will delete your P2P software, strongly implying that P2P is itself illegal and using ridiculous, non-legal terms like "copyright theft" (umm, you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means). So much for 17,000,000 freely shareable CC-licensed works, so much for the public domain, so much for everything except for content from giant publishing orgs.

Here's a link from the IFPI's side of things . .

http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20050922.html

[komodo]

I can see where they're coming from, however there is, as it says, 17 million freely shareable works.... but I'm sure few people share those.

I understand how they could make this software, however I don't think it'll hold up in court.

[gotKRAUT]

im with harry on this one...i understand where they are coming from (damn one of my favorite band[metallica] for being such money hungry bat turds) but at the same time, this isnt the way to go about it...it wont hold up