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Reporters Engage in Heated Debate Over Campus File-Sharing Tax

By DrewWilson

Last weeks announcement that Warner, one of the big four record labels, would set up a program to legalize campus file-sharing has had some technology reporters sending heated arguments to each other over whether it was a positive move or not. Last week, Warner Music announced a proposal to put a tax on college tuition to allow file-sharing to occur on college campuses. The announcement was definitely big - so big, that reporters from different websites have found themselves sending heated opinion pieces to each other over whether or not this was a good or bad idea. On the one side, Nate Anderson of Ars Technica argued that this was a positive step forward because it would mean the end of p2p lawsuits against college and university students. Adding to the argument is that this move is a radical departure from the previous way of doing things (which is essentially sue everyone) On the other side of the debate is Mike Masnick of Tech Dirt.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).