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Thursday, September 26, 2002

Intel Irony

WSJ.  Wired.  The music industry is set to launch an ad campaign against P2P file sharing.  "People going into computers"??

Ms. Spears, for example, is quoted in the ad saying: "Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing: People going into the computers and logging on and stealing our music."

[ Source:  John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Revealing Digital Hollywood

[...] Most revealing quote of the day went to Brad Hunt, CTO of the MPAA, who at one point summed up the challenge facing the entertainment and computing industries this way: "How do you make the PC a trusted entertainment appliance?" That's the mindset, the shared assumption, underlying the forces on this side of the copyright battle. Wading through two days of that negative energy was a trying experience. [...more] [ Source:  JD's Blog]

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