Must Read – Cory Doctorow on Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry
Cory Doctorow’s article in the Guardian.co.uk (it’s British, so the law doesn’t necessarily apply to the Americans in the crowd…) has an outrageously good look at how the record industry blew it with their incredibly transparent and stupendously idiotic plan to stop music piracy. This month’s announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their internet connections is just the latest paragraph…