DRM.info: Informing about the dangers of controlling private media use

[Alphax]

Mark Newton wrote:
[fixed quoting]
> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 04Oct2006 23:07, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
<snip>
>>> BitTorrent
>>> never would have been created if Kazaa wasn't being attacked by RIAA.
>>
>> Bollocks. BitTorrent is a very cool idea that would have taken off
>> without the RIAA.
> 
> ... and yet we had 30 years of the Internet without it, where hundreds
> of millions of Internet users viewed HTTP and FTP as "good enough".
> 

Interesting. Did we have 30 years of broadband internet and incredibly
cheap large hard drives to go with that?

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