“Peer-to-peer goes legitimate”
That’s a headline from a BBC Click Online item.
Does that mean that until now p2p has been ‘illegitimate’? Of course not. But the header nonetheless suggests p2p is in some way ‘dodgy,’ lending weight to the entertainment industry’s spurious claims that there’s something wrong with p2p and file sharing.
Matt Phillips of the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) says in a quote:
“It’s not necessarily the artists of today that are going to feel the pinch [caused by file sharing]. It’s going to be the guy who’s just done his demo and goes to the record company and tries to get a deal and they say: ‘sorry, we can’t actually afford to sign you right now’.
“It’s that kind of thing that we desperately want to avoid’.”
That’s arrant nonsense, but it’s offered as a serious possibility.
Read the complete story @ P2Pnet News
