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Originally Posted by Mike Caffrey  I agree with everything you wrote, but I was responding to the post where you asked if there was anyone who saw a use other than illegal file sharing and there is. I never said anything about permitted downloads being a majority.
I don't think shutting down P2Ps would have a damaging effect, but that's not an arguement that supports shutting them down. |
I was responding to earlier posts from those trying to defend the use of P2P's for legitimate reasons (which no one has really been able to do yet).
My argument is that P2P's are mostly used to 'share' (and by 'share' I mean 'obtain without having to purchase') either music that was intended for sale, movies that were intended for sale, software that was intended for sale or porn.
The reality is that there are plenty of tools on the internet for artists to promote and distribute their music. These tools allow the artist to decide if their music should be distributed for free or if they would like to receive money for their work.