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Karl Bode
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Re: Kind of bold statement

Not bold. True. Napster was HUGE in driving customers from dial-up to broadband. Free music was an incredibly dominant driver in broadband adoption for years...even in many cases quietly hinted at in carrier marketing materials...

Now that the conversion of dial-up users has stagnated, and Verizon's interested in building a TV and content empire and protecting its own copyrights, piracy is no longer needed as a growth engine.


KrK
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For me, it was always about gaming. I hardly have time anymore, but back in the day, it was multi-player gaming.

I've barely ever touched any P2P. I always wanted broadband so I could host my own servers and content free of charge--- but of course, it was banned, blocked, violation of TOS, etc etc so it never happened.

Now they are even cracking down on the gaming. Moving it all to their control. /sigh. The real potential of the Internet is being wrecked by greed and corporate interests.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini


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