file sharing legallized?

[wonderboy2005]

with the FT/kazaa court hearing coming within a couple weeks, the possiblility for a president to be set. should this happen, it will go one of two ways: a) filesharing will become DEFINATELY illegal. b) file sharing will become legal. which way do u think it will go? or will no president be set?

[method]

Sharing of copyrighted material, yeah, I can understand them making a ruling on it... but on file-sharing period.. i doubt it. Plenty of legitimate stuff is shared too, it's like destroying the FTP protocol 'coz some servers are ratio warez servers...

[Power Penguin]

The last comment is correct, but if swapping copyrighted material is banned from Kazaa and WinMx etc, then it will die out.

[ashep612]

for the most part file sharing is already illegal, so what difference will it make anyway??

[TC75580]

You mean what precedent will be set... and I really hope that the people or the programs will stand up for themselves for once... I mean really, if everyone that used KaZaA started protesting to the government against the RIAA, who could stop them? The thing is, we need mainstream users and not just IRC users to do this.

[Travis982]

There does seem to be a trend beginning where companies are standing up to the RIAA. There was an article here about Verizon disallowing RIAA snoops access to customer info.

As more large businesses take a stand more will follow. When the RIAA starts eroding their customer base and profits, see how fast they take a stand.

And I agree individuals need to protest also---often and heartily. Quit buying CDs and let the RIAA know buying won't resume until they lay off. That message they will get real quick.

[wonderboy2005]

sorry for my typing error. anyways... maybe it doesnt matter right now weather or not p2p becomes legal, but like will rae said, if it becomes illegal, it will eventually die out (most likely) but if it becomes legal, then p2p will become huge. all the sudden, peeps who didnt have the nerve to do somthing illegal will jump on the 'p2p bandwagon' which will follow a legitimate ruling. since fastTrack is big enough, a *precedent *(heh) could be set. in my opinion, i hope nothing happens. we dont want p2p to die out, but noobies are no fun either.