TYPICAL. You fight tooth and nail to bury a technology, arrest almost 3000 people using it for nefarious purposes, and then along comes some smart alec who says you got it all wrong. The same technology could make your fortune and have huge benefits for consumers, too. And on this occasion that smart alec is no minnow.
Music and film executives’ minds are probably still recovering from the announcement in the UK earlier this month that the BBC is planning a pilot project to test a file-sharing system to distribute its TV programmes to viewers over the internet. Until now the entertainment industry has viewed this…
