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  • Efforts to stop music piracy 'pointless'

    11/22/2002 10:55:42 AM PST · by GeneD · 53 replies · 707+ views
    BBC News Online ^ | 11/22/2002
    Record industry attempts to stop the swapping of pop music on online networks such as Kazaa will never work. So says a research paper prepared by computer scientists working for software giant Microsoft. The four researchers believe that the steady spread of file-swapping systems and improvements in their organisation will eventually make them impossible to shut down. They also conclude that the gradual spread of CD and DVD burners will help thwart any attempts to control what the public can do with the music they buy. Doomed disksThe paper was prepared for a workshop on Digital Rights Management, (DRM), at...