Music companies make fools of themselves yet again in France

From the register;

The French music industry is suing four US-based companies for distributing P2P applications that can potentially be used to illegally share music.

Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF), a group representing French record labels, is targeting Limewire, Morpheus, and Vuze (formerly Azureus) in the legal action.

Its fourth mark is oddly the open source code repository SourceForge, for simply hosting the P2P client project, Shareaza.

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TorrentFreaks, which flagged the story, notes enforcing a ban on platforms that can be used to distribute unauthorized content is certainly ripe for abuse. What else can be used to distribute content illegally? Oh, say, FTP, web browsers, and email. Hell, the entire Internet itself could be banned in France.

I always laugh when I see how yet again the music industry world wide, instead of trying to adapt to the changing climate, alienates itself from its customers by yet again totally misunderstanding the nature of the industry they blame for their downfall. Even a 10 minute discussion with anyone even mildly technically literate could have pointed out why this litigation is so ridiculous!

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