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Songwriters Guild: Network Neutrality Means More Piracy
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| There has been an effort made by some to try
| to connect the totally unrelated issues of
| network neutrality and unauthorized file
| sharing together. There is no connection
| between the two, but that won't stop busy
| lobbyists from doing their best to drum up
| such a connection. Copycense points us to the
| news that Grover Nordquit's group has decided
| to push this line of nonsense by parroting
| claims by the Songwriter's Guild of America
| (SGA) that accepting net neutrality is akin to
| encouraging piracy. How? That's not clear,
| because there's really no connection at all.
| The best they can say is that net neutrality
| would prevent efforts to crack down on file
| sharing (except, every plan for net neutrality
| has explicitly had exceptions for such
| things). I've said it before and I'll say it
| again: I am not in favor of laws mandating
| neutrality, but the arguments made by those
| against it are so over-the-top ridiculous that
| it's actually making me wonder why. There are
| reasonable arguments against mandating
| neutrality, but these groups don't make them.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091215/1845007377.shtml
Related:
Internet capacity alarmism is a corporatist scam
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| The Daily Kos bogger writes, "When big figures like $137 billion start
| getting tossed around, it is always worth looking at the vital
| question... 'Who would benefit?' Sure enough, the article includes part of
| the answer."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/26/internet-capacity-alarmism
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