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Stephen Downes

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As part of its persistent campaign to eliminate music file trading, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is calling on corporations to prevent their employees from using such services as Kazaa and Gnutella, threatening them with legal action should they fail to comply. This of course is a continuation of their previous camapaign aimed at colleges and universities, and just as in the previous case, calls for punitive action even in the complete lack of any evidence of wrongdoing. What next? Should corporations also shut down email because employees could use it to trade files? How about IRC? FTP? Heck, let's just shut down the whole internet; it's such an inconvenience to sellers of $25 pieces of plastic.

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