Recordings And Porn – A Reason To Object?

The recording industry seems to be hitching its objections to file-trading to the porn industry. “It said that peer-to-peer file-sharing – the technology used by Internet sites like Kazaa and Morpheus – was bad not only because citizens could share music without paying for it, but also because it was used to swap pornographic images. One odd thing here: If you tweak that sentiment just a little bit, it becomes: We join our friends the child pornographers in deploring file-sharing of protected works of art.”