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Can a charity make file-sharing taboo? 8:16pm on 01 May 2008 As much as I am for people's copyright to their work, filesharing is the the market´s answer to ridiculous CD prices at the time. The industry simply reacted too slowly to the emergence of a new technology, thinking it had slain the dragon when chopping the head off Napster.

As for Childnet, it baffles me how naive an organization can be. To approach children with this kind a message is simply so out of date. And why did they need the backing of the music industry for their campaign? So much for credibility of a cause.

If the music industry really wanted to target a group, it should have been today's parents and not their children. However, that approach should have been a decade ago. Asking the people you've ripped off for years to preach a gospel to their children in your favour is bound to fall on deaf ears, no matter what the tune is.
Facebook and privacy 7:36pm on 01 May 2008 I do share the issues on privacy raised here. People perhaps do not realize but even before the social networking explosion they were already leaing their footprints behind them all over the Internet. Our every move can be traced there!

By entering Facebook you are already opening yourself access to yourself on a grand scale but it only gets worse when the application develeopers have been granted a virtual "hunting licence" on the masses involved in these sites.

The "tick the box" or "adjust your privacy settings" excuse is a lousy one and nothing but a severe betrayal of user trust.

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