I dont see the fact that they are going to sue everyone as a solution both in the long term or even a short term measure. We can already see the amount are artists, all be they the less known ones, complaining that sueing people does not sell records. I think that the RIAA is short changing artists because you cannot sue your fans and still expect loyalty. Once more of them breaks ranks, the others will follow.

Robbie Williams is one who has broken ranks and said that the Record Labels should make the music more available.

I liked what he said:

?It?s about being part of that future,? he added. ?Even though there might be some drawbacks now ? some people say the quality of compressed music is not as good as CDs. They are right, but that will improve dramatically over time.?

http://freelimewire.info/2006/artist-robbie-williams-angers-riaa/

Williams has irritated the music industry in the past by defending illegal downloading of music. He reportedly once called it a ?great idea?.

P2P is here to stay be it in the form of Kazaa, (Ooops), Limewire or what ever pops out next. The question remains as to how are they going to embrace it. We can already see the dispute with Itunes and the artists where they complain that the music at 99c is too cheap.

http://freelimewire.info/2006/itunes-sticks-with-99-cent-structure/

Yet saying that the latest reports from from the Manager of Real Networks clearly paints a gloomy picture by saying that:

?About half the music on iPods is music obtained illegitimately either from an illegal peer-to-peer networks or from ripping friends? CDs, which is illegal.?

So by pushing up the prices for ITunes (Which in my view is a monopoly as it stands) the prices increases would just push people futher away!

You decide...

Music is not so much the problem but movies because of their size. For most of the consumers who use these services, the PC monitor will be the viewing screen. According to Movielink, only 15% of its rental customers currently view their movies on a TV, while one-third use a laptop and the remaining 50% or so use a desktop computer. It seems, then, that being restricted to watching a movie on a PC monitor should not (in-and-of-itself) discourage consumers from purchasing a movie download - so goes the argument.

Check out this link on the pros and cons of downloadedable content. It makes for intersting reading!

http://freelimewire.info/2006/the-problem-with-internet-based-movie-downloads/

The issue of indexing remains questionable as it is only pointing to an illegal file pretty much as what Google does, however that makes up a small percentage of Google where as indexing of illegal files one could argue makes your indexing questionable.

This link:

http://freelimewire.info/2006/evidence-2-evidence/

brings up many interesting questions about what each side deems to be legal. This issue will not go away until a higher court makes a ruling on it and the music industry makes a better effort at providing legal download music viable and not as stupid as what it is now. The cost of a CD costs the same as a download with no lyrics for physical media. does that make any sense?

Talk about block buster and Netflix. They are having a go at each other.


http://freelimewire.info/2006/netflix-sues-blockbuster/

Sony is a good make however I would think that thier television sets and Heur the Chinese manufacturer are starting to look the same.

It might sound a bit odd when I say this but maybe that is the more sanatized version of Google, so to speak.

Thanks Emil. I wondered why it took so long for Google to update. I read somewhere that Google updates it all the time but does not always display it to the public. That might be the reason wht there is such a "public" viewable delay. Thanks again.

How long between the average updates?

A new page of mine went from PR0 to PR2 then back to PR0. Any ideas? It does not look like an update to me.

I would much rather have them turned off. They are terrible depending on how people use them. Some just shout into the telephone.