sharing music

Governments all over the world, and in the so-called Free West in particular, look like confused sheep. They are applauding the net activists who are helping people communicate unhindered to get news out from repressive regimes, and at the same time arresting people who use the same technologies in their own countries.

While we're still dealing with people losing copyright lawsuits and being told to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for sharing a handful of songs, a court in Germany has ordered a guy to pay a grand total of 30 euros ($41) for sharing two music tracks.

Despite being a private community of music fanatics, What.cd operates one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet.

Recently, the site's users were silently transferred to a new tracker.

Computerworld: "Internet service providers should have authority to block subscribers from sharing music and other files without permission of the copyright owner, the RIAA said.

"ISPs are in a unique position to limit online theft," the RIAA said..."

Exactly one month ago, we picked up on a report that said that iTunes 9 would support Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm.

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