Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () civicnet org>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, JC Dill wrote:

>  >rigorous fight against the RIAA since they would mostly be defending
>  >the rights of people and organizations that they don't do business
>
> If one voluntarily caves in, they will almost certainly see their sales
> plummet.  Would you buy bandwidth from a provider who has caved in to a

also keep in mind that most of the large backbones are also common
carriers - if not for Internet, certainly for telephone - so they might
well fight the issue on principle


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