It seems there is no end to greed!

[Lee]

On Friday 20 December 2002 02:34, ronnie gauthier wrote:
> I read it. Seems to me that at what they are charging as a "tax" to be
> "given" as compensation to recording artists... would allow you to
> record *any* music to media that was taxed, no matter the source.
>
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:18:23 -0800 - Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net> wrote
> the following
> Re: It seems there is no end to greed!
>
> >After seeng posts here re efforts by the film and entertainment
> >industry
> > pushing for various laws to be passed south of the border, I didn't
> >realize that  there were simalar  moves being pushed here in Canada.
> >Well I finally realize that Canadian polititions are far mor corrupt
> >than  anything  possible south of the border.  If you doubt that then
> >read the following.

>>There's still KaZaa. The company who owns it is incorporated on some obscure 
island in the Pacific that doesn't have copyright laws and the two elusive  
guys who have the source code for it have disappeared in Europe somewhere 
where even the record company's legal sharks or American courts can find 
them. Not that it would do the greed bags any good. KaZaA, unlike Napster 
recides on the users computer not a central computer server system. So, 
there's no way to shut it down except by breaking into your computer and 
erasing the music files. Something has authorized the entertainment to do, 
even if it does violate the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. The only 
drawback with KaZaA, other than the vulnerability of swapping files, is that 
there is no Linux version of it. The thing is designed for MicroGreed, but if 
you run a dual boot system with MS and one of the newer Linux OSs like 
Mandrake 8.1, 8.2 or SuSE 7.2  you can access the music files on the MS 
partition with the bundled MP3 players like xxms. Who knows maybe KaZaA's 
developers willcome up with a Linux version.

Lee
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