exsanguinator wrote
I remember a few years ago they sued napster or something for illegal downloads or something,
theres no way people were downloading their music,
Really?
Maybe their first 4,which Lars admitted he tape traded years ago as well,whats the difference..sod!
People's positions on things change as their stake in the game changes. One of my favourite books to read is Cliff Stoll's
The Cuckoo's Egg. Nothing to do about music really. Stoll was the central figure in the first documented computer hacking case. He gets sent to investigate an accounting error on a system at Berkley University (California), and eventually tracks down hackers from Germany (he had no idea, at first, that the computers were being hacked, but he slowly pieced the whole business together). One of the interesting things about the book is the moral journey he travels.
At the start of the story he's a typical vaguely anti-establishment university long hair with an instinctive distrust of authority and fairly loose attitudes towards access to information and so on. But as he realises what's going on on Berkley's computer systems he starts to see it as a threat to the mutual trust that has built up between various organisations and wonders where the information is going and who wants it and why and he has to take a stand. He ends up thinking of the hackers as being the equivalent of burglars and eventually finds himself doing the previously unthinkable and co-operating with the FBI, the CIA and the military.
So... like I said, nothing to do with music really, but it shows how people's attitudes can change according to their degree of involvement. They can find themselves having to take a stand on things they'd never even thought of.
(also not the only reason you should read that book. It's a great read in many ways)
