I love reading about the conniption fits the music and movie industries are in. Strong copyright must die. It no longer serves its original purpose and now makes corporations the slave masters and beneficiaries of human cultural production. Down with the parasites. They do not produce anything they simply wish to control it and make money from it.
Here was a funny passage in this article about hiding Kazaa’s source code from rapacious industry lawyers:
Nikki Hemming, the chief executive of Sharman, which is based in Sydney, Australia, is scheduled to meet with the entertainment industry’s lawyers soon to give a deposition, though at the request of her lawyers, the meeting will probably take place in Canada. Niklas Zennstrom and Janis Friis, who developed the software, are being sought in Europe. And according to a lawyer for the record industry, the programmers in Estonia who once possessed a copy of the program’s source code told a judge there last week that they no longer had it, but they would not say where it was.