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Yale Students Replace Kazaa With Humans Swapping CDs
from the not-quite-as-efficient,-but-tougher-for-RIAA-to-track-down dept
Sometimes, there are tradeoffs between efficiency and privacy. Lots of people have different ideas for ways to avoid getting sent an RIAA lawsuit if they're sharing music, but a student at Yale has worked out a system that isn't particularly efficient - but is much more difficult for the RIAA to track down. It's a "file sharing" website where people set up a time and place to meet to physically exchange CDs - which each person can then go off and copy (or not). The article describing the system appears in rival Harvard's newspaper, and thus they're pretty eager to point out why this system might be illegal. Of course, it isn't actually illegal. It's not even facilitating illegal activity as the point is just to let people swap legitimate CDs, which is completely legal. If they then go off and make copies, that's a legal issue that each individual needs to deal with, but the site is not involved with that aspect of the transaction.
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wait until RIAA gets wind of this, after all, 'if you didn't pay for it, you stole it'
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I'm imagining this future of clandestine meetings between music fans giving secret code words, and exchanging mysterious packages. "Watch out, it's the RIAA, run for it..." Yea, the great Cold War business model. Just remember "I know nothing."
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Wrong Mikester...the logo is:
"If you didn't pay US for it, you stole it"
Remember, they don't like used CD stores either. :)
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