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Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Should the people who create a technology be responsible for what users do with that technology? If the RIAA has a say in it, the answer is yes. If technology inventors are held liable, it's difficult to imagine where to draw the line. The Google search engine arguably helps pirates find copies of software, and Usenet newsreaders--from Forte FreeAgent to the venerable tin and trn--surely aid and abet file-swapping on the alt.binaries hierarchy. FTP (file transfer protocol) is often used to swap illicit files, the argument might go, and the ready availability of free Perl interpreters and C compilers accelerates the development process. Right?  |
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