TPB trial witness: file-sharing not bad for music business - Ars Technica
Thu, Feb 26th, 2009
The Pirate Bay trial settled into something (sort of) approaching normality today as two professors took the stand. One explained more about how BitTorrent functions; the other got into a fight with prosecutors, suggested that file-sharing wasn't bad for the music business in general and that it has led to a huge transfer of wealth to artists, and sarcastically asked the court to send flowers to his wife.
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TPB trial witness: file-sharing not bad for music business
What happens when a professor who believes that file-sharing has been beneficial to the music industry takes the witness stand in The Pirate Bay trial, then learns that prosecutors have been talking to his boss about the quality of his research? Fireworks—and flowers.(Tech Industry News)
LtGenPandaThu, Feb 26th, 2009131 Diggs, 2 Comments