However, as I learned more about fair use and copyright law while designing FreeSpeech, I became more and more conscious that I was, while at FR, in essence a party to theft.
I hear this crap all the time. Next time one of you brain surgeons find yourself feeling as if you're commiting a crime because you're reading ancient, industrial-aged copyright laws, do your hypocritical self and everyone else a favor.... log the f### off and don't come back. The forum doesn't need people who aren't bright enough to realize that this "law suit" never had a damn thing to do with copyright law anyway.
The "theif" argument directed at everyone who DL's a Metallica MP3 or frequents FR or is wearing thin. The whole movement to stomp out the free exchange of digital data is turning into a giant bag of s### that is being lit on fire and thrown onto the porch of those who affiliate themselves with it. The rest of us are in the bushes laughing ourselves silly watching y'all try to stomp it out.
God bless you JR. You know that this was the best we could have gotten. Despite all of the let-downs you handled everything nearly perfectly, maybe even perfectly. I'm really amazed.
If they want to talk revenue, the LAT and WP should be happy you let them leech your traffic. FR has been a huge net gain for them and their peon writers.
Really? What was this lawsuit about in your opinion?
Yea, and OJ was persecuted because he was a strong black man. Go download some more of your stolen songs and pretend that rules are irrelevant. Just like al-Queda, you're untouchable. {smile}