P2P group seeks peace, but talks tough:
A newly launched peer-to-peer trade association has offered to sit down and negotiate with music industry lawyers, while it simultaneously denounced its adversaries as obsolete and "tyrannosaurical."Despite the creative newly minted adjective, the story is [tragically] about the trade group, P2P United, which is actually trying to make a deal with the devil. To wit:
P2P United wouldn't give details on how what kind of deal it would seek with the RIAA and other copyright holders, except to say that it was looking for some sort of compulsory license or indirect payment system. One idea that's been floated, is for Congress to levy a tax on high-speed Internet connections, with the proceeds split between the RIAA and peer-to-peer companies.Boo. I discussed this idea a couple weeks ago and still have yet to be swayed.
Note to all my readers: you are currently renting the photons emitting from your monitor, on lease from me perpetually. If you in any way, shape or form profit off these photons, I will persecute you to the ends of the Earth and then some. Dirty dirty thieves.
Posted by Tim at September 29, 2003 03:29 PM | TrackBackI promise not to profit if you promise not to persecute. I have enough of that :)
Posted by: Taran at September 30, 2003 09:41 PMYou lose!
Read my EULA of DOOOM: http://tim.movementarian.com/archives/000078.html
Posted by: Tim at September 30, 2003 10:29 PM