heh, bringing up the typical cliche opinion about IRC politics - does any network ever agree on any subject?
Personally, I'm against file sharing
on IRC because, I believe Watchdog used the best word, it "pollutes" the network. It actually starts to annoy me when I think somebody is sitting in one of those channels, mindlessly typing commands heh.
I don't agree however, with all of the RIAA's rigmaroll about how so-called "musicians" are losing millions of dollars/pounds every year because of the huge increase in file sharing. The reason I don't agree? Because I can't feel sorry for Madonna just because she's worth $10,000,000 rather than $15,000,000 because of it. Boo-hoo, I can't pay the bills for my 7 bedroom luxorious mansion...I don't think so :P
Let's face it, none of the people that have their music illegally downloaded are exactly hard up, are they? No. However, on IRC it just looks ugly, and the sooner networks such as EFnet and IRCNet ban file sharing, which I doubt they will, the IRC world might be that one step closer to being a nicer place
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Regards,
