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[Lars Aronsson]

Frank Mohr wrote:

> but i don't think disobedience is a solution
> (except if you have enouth money to pay lawyers for all
> court instances to defend your position)

Having started to read Clausewitz, I would say the opposite: You 
can win only by having less money, so that the rights holders will 
not find it worthwhile to go after you.

As an example, compare Napster to Kazaa.  Napster provided a 
central repository of (largely pirated) music, so the RIAA had a 
single enemy to fight against.  No matter how much money Napster 
would have to defend their case, the RIAA would have even more 
money.  In the case of Kazaa, the company only provided the 
software and the music was copied directly peer-to-peer, so the 
RIAA had thousands of small enemies, and it became very hard to 
prosecute any single one of them.  The founder of Kazaa, Niklas 
Zennström, left the company early and went on to start Skype.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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