file sharing will kill music?
 

being a musician and deejay, file sharing is awesome cuz it helps people get access to music they normally wouldn't listen to.see article below...
(cliff notes...a new software has been developed that hides them from industry investigators)


Stealth online use by Christmas: software designers

Software that will allow people to anonymously swap music and other files on the Internet could render copyrighting of songs and movies obsolete by year's end, a creator said.

A test version of the "darknet" software was made available on a Freenet Project website early Wednesday and a refined edition could soon be ready "for general consumption," Ian Clarke of Freenet told AFP.

The software is intended to allow computer users worldwide to exchange files online in a way that hides them from industry investigators, vindictive politicians and others, Clarke said.

Music recording industry goliaths have fought to crush such renegade file sharing, which they claim fosters piracy of copyrighted material by musicians.

Darknet software has so far been treated as a tolerable bane by copyright defenders because programs have been difficult to use and limited to sharing between groups of no more than five or 10 computer users.

Hmmmm yet another outlet for p2p porn promoters?

long live blank tape copy swapping!

for sure, cassette tape mixes are the shit...thats how i tell a chick i dig them.

that is fucking excellent news. fuck the greedy bastards suing people over file sharing. if you are suing over rights to your music, you love the money, not the music, and that takes you off the artistic role call for good.

File sharing has killed porn