News How to infuriate the RIAA and stay enragingly legal

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    An intriguing article from The Inquirer:

    So overall, you have a custom, caching, webcasting software, that lets the user control what songs they listen to, and better yet pays its dues in a legal way! Wow. But isn't this a thinly disguised P2P network, that allows for a central database of songs anywhere on the network? Isn't this the reason that Napster searches were so much better than current peer to peer searches? Isn't this simply a way for people to download songs en masse, and pay a pittance for them once? Isn't this the ultimate P2P program?

    The easy answer to this is no. That would be wrong, and an illegal, immoral use of a legitimate webcasting setup. This proposed program will be set up as a real radio station, and run as such, the only difference being that they have no DJs, are rather democratic, and run for profit


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