Major Labels v. Backbones
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at civicnet.org
Mon Aug 19 20:33:04 UTC 2002
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, JC Dill wrote:
> >rigorous fight against the RIAA since they would mostly be defending
> >the rights of people and organizations that they don't do business
>
> If one voluntarily caves in, they will almost certainly see their sales
> plummet. Would you buy bandwidth from a provider who has caved in to a
also keep in mind that most of the large backbones are also common
carriers - if not for Internet, certainly for telephone - so they might
well fight the issue on principle
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