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Originally posted by Animal:
I think all file sharing programs should be outlawed.
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That's a rather sweeping statment..
let's look at it like this, a program is shipped with a minor flaw, you put a patch out the "normal" way and your spending money to correct the misstake, every user would have to download that patch to fix the error..
What if the patch is larger, that's more bandwidth per user, maybe the company can't afford to send the file to everyone.. Filesharing takes the load off them, means that everyone is able to get what they need to be up and running with less bondwidth cost issues..
Without bittorrent Neocron 2 might never have been released, and the world would be an empty and hollow place..
Well they'd probably have used somthing else but anyway the point stands.
There are many legal uses for file sharing programs, without napster and others we'd probably not see so much music up for playing over the internet legaly, you still have to pay but it's nothing near the cost of buying a CD..
It'd be much more in the music and movie industrys interest to take advantage of the fact people want to download and watch movies on their computers, few tweaks and they could be sending out encyrpted files, then charge for unlock codes to be sent out via the internet, pay per view style..
Far nicer than saying "no bad bad bad, go away" they can't stop change, only embrace it or be overun.