OFF:<<== see? WARNING! the word NAPSTER appears in this post!-_-

[Michaelangelo Blackman]

If your a Hawkwind fan then you must be allright

allright..............

from MICHAELANGELO at kangaroo land
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: OFF:<<== see? WARNING! the word NAPSTER appears in this
post!-_-


> On Sat, 13 May 2000 DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> => my main concern regarding napster [in my post from yesterday,] involved
the
> => potentially-sinister implications of the phrase "hunted down and
> => blocked".....to the tune of over 317, 000 computers.
> =>
> => ==>>and _none_ of y'all are troubled by this?
>
> Not really, as it appears to be par for the course for Napster.  I guess
> most people usually ignore MOTD files, but these two little lines in the
> MOTD for the official site caused my eyebrows to raise a tad:
>
> >>>>>
> -- NO BOTS ARE ALLOWED ON THIS SERVICE.  IF YOU RUN ONE HERE, --
> -- IT WILL BE BLOCKED AND YOUR IP WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED. --
> <<<<<
>
> I find it amusing that this routine blocking policy is quietly brushed
> aside by Napster whilst rigtheous indignation surrounds those "hunted
> down and blocked [for copying illegal files]."  (The thing is, bots can
> be benign as well as harassing, but apparently they're all evil
> according to Napster, so expell them...)
>
> Besides, did they ban 317,000 computers or 317,000 users?  If the
> latter, surely the 317,000 can simply re-register under a new name and
> carry on business as usual?  If the former, then they are unfairly
> discriminating against people on multi-user systems and those behind
> firewalls!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>