Battleangel

Slashdot got on the Slyck story but the best exchange can be found in the /. commentary:

ndansmith:

Winners: People who enjoy shared music and movies for free.

Losers: **AAs, whose obsolete business model is faltering

Biggest Losers: The poor pre-teens and grandparents dragged into court by the **AAs.

Doppler00:

Let’s correct this shall we:

Winners: People who don’t want to pay for music or movies and would rather steal them.

Losers: Businesses who have a right to sell their products under the protection of copyright laws.

Biggest Losers: The average consumer who has to deal with excessive DRM because of the “winners” above.

commodoresloat:

Winners: Musicians who now have the opportunity to tap into niche markets globally without paying a blood tax to soulless corporations who are destroying music

Losers: Ego-driven and greedy but untalented millionaire executives at said corporations who will see slightly less profit this year from sucking the blood of people with actual talent by locking down their distribution channels, yet will nonetheless whine like babies that they’re being ripped off by the very fans who made them millionaires in the first place

Biggest Losers: Slashdotters who aren’t getting a penny of this money but still feel driven to defend these bloodsucking corporate drones every chance they get.

Touché!