http://gapingvoid.com/2004/04/12/the-future/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Tue, 22 May 2012 00:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://gapingvoid.com/2004/04/12/the-future/#comment-528 Derek Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:02:04 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=624#comment-528 The film industry is somewhat smarter than the music industry, at least on the consumer distribution side. When napster hit, they just would put up 500 bad files (the same size and title as the movie) for every pirated movie out there. Its not that it stopped pirating, it just made it hard enough that most people went out and bought the $10 DVD instead. With DMCA they just send out annoying letters by the millions to ISP to tell the user to knock it off. Since most ISPs don't allow file sharing (even legal files), the ISPs help kick off file sharers. Of course this is annoying for those of us trying to use bittorrent to download linux distributions (cause now ISPs will cut off a connection for any high bandwidth traffic). The film industry is somewhat smarter than the music industry, at least on the consumer distribution side. When napster hit, they just would put up 500 bad files (the same size and title as the movie) for every pirated movie out there. Its not that it stopped pirating, it just made it hard enough that most people went out and bought the $10 DVD instead.
With DMCA they just send out annoying letters by the millions to ISP to tell the user to knock it off. Since most ISPs don’t allow file sharing (even legal files), the ISPs help kick off file sharers. Of course this is annoying for those of us trying to use bittorrent to download linux distributions (cause now ISPs will cut off a connection for any high bandwidth traffic).

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