A federal judge hands a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast and Grokster, dismissing much of the music and film industries' lawsuits against them. (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/998363.htm)

Found this article linked on Drudge, figured it would be of interest here. A very rare case of common sense in a courtroom.

It's about time someone realised that Video's have been done in the same fashion, and hell even DVD's are. Now, what we don't wanna see is that they have to start implementing anti piracy features in all these things. :/

As much as I'd hate it I think thats exactly what they will do. Bringing out antipiracy tech and software is probably gonna happen. But there will always be a nice bunch of hackers on the internet who are willing to do some hard work and bust it wide open fer all of us. As long as there is internet there will be fileshareing. Companies just have to cut out the bullshit and start putting proper prodocts on shelves rather that stupid pop albums full of filler tracks and that is when people will start taking stuff seriously and start buying more. I still think that I should be able to listen to an album before I buy it and the internet is virtually the only way I can do that.

There, thats my peice.

Perhaps some of you will remember waaay back to the Commodore 64 days (48k of useable memory and 300 baud) when copy protection schemes would send the disk drive out to track 40, which didn't exist. The resulting chaos racketing from the disk drive was so unnerving that in order to prevent physical damage to the drive, you'd buy a program for the documentation, and obtain a 'broken' copy with the protection removed, or run it through Fast Hack'em, possibly the first warez application creator.