[plug] BLocking MP3s

[The Thought Assassin]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Mark Saxon wrote:
> > Is there a reason why?
> Yes, it costs them too many bytes.
It will cost them too many customers.

> They should simply charge a per-byte fee for MP3s but probably don't
> know how to do the accounting.
If they can't do accounting, the chances are they can't do firewalling at
all. Can you reach said MP3s after disabling the proxy? (ftp or http)

> I'm not sure that it's legal to block access to material that is not
> illegal.
In a free market, I should hope our government can leave it to the
customers to inflict their own punishment on them.

What are you going to do when Gimp3.0 comes out?

-Greg Mildenhall