William Chops Westfield wrote:

> 
> You left out "theft."  Current estimates are running "50% to 60% of
> traffic is peer-to-peer 'sharing' applications" with 40% of measured
> traffic in some places being bittorrent.  MPIAA/etc is convinced that
> ALL of that is people stealing music and video 'intellectual property',
> but even assuming it's not THAT bad, it's probably still pretty bad.
> 
> Porn, theft, spam.
> 
> Sigh.
> BillW

I think people need to take into account the positive value of 
materials, not the negative value. Sure the sharing of illegal software 
is bad, but the PICList is extremely beneficial for many people, as are 
many many many websites. Arguably pornography is the only thing on the 
internet that really has the potential to harm people.

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Martin K
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