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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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