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March 11th, 2004

More interesting stuff from Woebot on file-sharing ethics

More interesting stuff from Woebot on file-sharing ethics. I’ve commented in the archives on what Matt’s saying, but I thought I’d point to it here because it crystallised an uneasiness I’ve had about PopNose’s rapid success. Much though I enjoy all the attention it was never meant to be a big part of the site, and since it looks like getting even bigger very quickly it may be time to call a halt, partly because of nervousness over the legal position but also because our poor host’s bandwidth is precarious at the best of times and a surge of publicity could land him in hot water.

That said I do enjoy doing it, and I’ve been thinking about ways in which I could continue doing something similar with a little less stress, keeping the very welcome readers who comment and vote and losing the more locust-like bandwidth devourers. Watch this space, I suppose.

UPDATE: After sleeping on it I decided to suspend the Nose for now. I have a definite idea of what to do with it so it won’t be gone for good, and there’s also the possibility of putting the odd particularly crucial track on here, anyway.

Written by Tom on Thursday, March 11th, 2004 | 241 views |

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