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Akin to file sharing: I installed Freecoder and thought the world was bloody wonderful. I could now record with excellent reproduction anything I liked hearing through the Internet.
The next thing thing I knew, BBC Radio 3 had blocked my listening to their programmes I had recorded from with a message concerning copyright. And I wasn't the only one. I saw that the same thing had happened to others. After about a week all was ok again. (I had written the BBC to find out what was going on but they didn't reply.) This certainly gave me food for thought.
On the whole I'm for filesharing if the big companies throw their weight around. The Internet should be a liberating, democratic thing, open to all regardless of income and country. And so many people provide their talent for nothing.
Most people don't want to break the law, so it's time there was a reasonable solution. Is this too much to hope for? Soon there'll be a judgment in Sweden on a case involving The Pirate Bay....
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