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   Omixochitl to Worldinmotion@gmail.com   
   Re: A Rhetorical Query(p2p)   
   31 Mar 06 16:55:49   
   
   From: omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   Worldinmotion@gmail.com wrote in news:1143752856.712499.188180   
   @i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > No this is not a RIAA/MPAA tracker bot.  Simply, the file-sharing   
   > phenomena has come to be the modern embodiment of the free reign of   
   > information transfer that was echoed and downright prophesized in the   
   > cyberpunk mythos.  What better way to reflect upon this than to go to   
   > the Source (so to speak).  Without further ado:   
   >   
   > "If music albums and film/television DVDs were suddenly made free in   
   > all stores everywhere, would internet 'piracy', file-sharing, and   
   > unauthorized data transfers continue to exist?  Is the desire to   
   > download media driven by an aversion to monetary costs or a compulsion   
   > to use digital means of media collecting?"   
      
   ...or a desire to get a work that's out of print?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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