Sep 4, 2003

Singin' the Blues
techtv: Meet a songwriter who really hates file sharing. "Well, now we have the technology that allows you to, in essence, invade my bank account," Cannon says. It's easy to see he's no fan of peer-to-peer networks such as KaZaA. Cannon has strong words for file swappers. "If you take something that doesn't belong to you without paying for it, or without permission -- the way I was raised, that's stealing," Cannon says. But he doesn't put all the blame on the downloaders.

Blame Bill Gates
"The problem is, Billy Gates and Stevie Case want a lot of people to use the service they provide. And a lot of people are using their service because it provides them with a portal whereby they can go in and steal stuff. It's not in Billy's or Stevie's interest to stop that. And at the end of the day I think it's the ISP's responsibility."

I never knew that songwrites got hurt by this, wow he has learnt some knew words from the computer world!