Ok... for a start... They COULD make money owning the servers the file-sharers use.... and you know, they already do!
Most of the portals for information (it's been years since darpanet's concept of 'flexible routing' truly meant anything) such as AOL are owned by the same media conglomerates that own the music... You crunch the numbers... Here one laugh from that scenario: A few years back, the musician Jackson Browne did an album called Looking East where one of the songs used the lyrics from various commercial jingles... The companies sued him, and in the final analysis, they were suing themselves via Time-Warner's lawyers so they dropped the suit. Leigh On Dec 30, 2007 7:10 PM, Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2007 21:35:39 Leigh Meyers wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2007 6:12 PM, Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In which case, it's rather puzzling that they're so terrified by it. Are > > > they just dumb? > > > > It a ploy to bamboozle the newsreading public into believing they are > > only capable of playing the issue from one side of the 'stage', and > > perhaps they haven't quite figured out how to make it work for them > > yet. > > We could make a pretty penny explaining it to them. But explain it to > me first -- just for practice, you know. >
