[plug] BLocking MP3s

[Mark Saxon]

The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yep that's the reason all right.  They have also blocked napster ports
which figures.
If they were going to apply a choke why not to news groups particularly
and ftp as well I asked.
No Reply yet.


> 
> > 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)

ftp still works 
 
> > 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.

Actually choice in Albany is pretty limited I'd suggest that's why they
are not to worried about the repercussions.

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

Why whats special abotu Gimp3.0

> 
> -Greg Mildenhall