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I was just reading an article that stated the music police are trying to go after ISPs that allow people to swap music, emails included. That would put PG at risk.



How? PG isn't an internet provider.....

And in the true sense of what an ISP does, they sell a service to people (the S in ISP). How they use it is pretty much up to the moral compass of the users to whom they provide internet (the P and I respectively - yes, I am a wise guy, but you knew that).

This has been in court time and again, has it not? I would have to research it but I thought that the internet nazi's lost this one when they went after someone for swapping music. As I understood it, you could swap music if you did not charge money for it or burn it to disc.

By the most literal definition of what the RIAA music police were after, if I write a song and publish it, I (as myself) become detached from that song in the sense that I am not the "artist", and not "me". So for me to send you a copy of MY OWN SONG is in violation (again, by the most literal definition) because the "artist", though that artist is "me", does not get royalties. THAT is how stupid the RIAA was.

I worked somewhere that butted heads with the RIAA. I can't talk much about it, only to say that I was just a little bit away from the middle of the head butting. They are, um, not very honest or respectable people.

Now, imp that I can be, let me toss this into the mix. PG is in Canada. Does US law apply to them? If you say yes, how do you explain the presence of file sharing servers in Europe and Russia and such?