| Filesharing is akin to dubbing rented movies on that brand new piece of 80's hardware called the video cassette player. Except multiplied a hundred-thousand fold. It's still illegal. Just because it's on a different medium and harder to trace doesn't make it less so.
Now, the reason KaZaA hasn't been successfully prosecuted against is partly because it's not an American product, but also because it doesn't have a central bank of servers. KaZaA is a p2p network. Napster, Audiogalaxy and the like were -to invent a term- p2S2p networks. And the owners of those servers could very well be held accountable. Napster's creater had an office that could be raided. And it was.
However, this doesn't mean the RIAA and Sony aren't trying, and if there's one thing they have that us filesharers don't, it's a very, very large amount of spendable money they can waste on fruitless court cases to keep us down. Often times, the one who wins is the one who can afford his lawyer the longest. And nobody wants to win a Phyrric victory in the courts.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |