Monday, 07 May 2007
Stupid Stupid Stupid - Part 1
John Dvorak blames the lawyers:
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...nobody, myself included, knows what to do with the code. It is practically useless.He notes how the RIAA's anti-piracy campaign generated tremendous publicity for MP3s-as-music-storage-and-trading medium, and the subsequent decimation of the retail CD business.
If the lawyers did nothing, it would have languished as a curiosity with perhaps a few crackers developing some software with it. The end result would be a few cracked copies of DVDs running on a few computers here and there.
Because of the lawyers and the nasty letters, now everyone online knows how important this number must be. Boom! Now users get to work on it.
Heck of a job, lawyers.
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My humble contribution to spreading the word is here.
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