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...court also justified the injunction by anticipating that users would rush to download songs before trial if the service were to remain open...
...will expand the market, I said. People will hear songs that they never heard before, and they will rush to the stores to buy the CDs. After all, nobody's going to download a whole album. Artists will be able to cut out the oppressive record companies (except, of course, for those fortunate artists signed to the enlightened companies that are part of the greater AOL Time Warner family) and get the audience and material rewards they deserve. Everyone will be rich, happy, fat and - did I mention rich...
...that, with my moral compass fully demagnetized, I began to download. I started with a strict set of rules: I would download only things, say Springsteen bootlegs, that I could not buy anyway. From there it was a short step to saying I would take only things that I already had copies of, then to saying I could take things I wished I had copies...
...this stealing? The answer is, yes, I know, that TK million people downloaded songs from Napster last weekend, which is theory represents TK million in lost revenue for record companies. (See Frank Pellegrini's accompanying story for the actual figures. TK, by the way, is journalistic shorthand for "To Come.") On the other hand, c'mon: A lot of those downloads were in the Supertramp category, songs that nobody would download if they had to actually pay for. So is it theft to take something you wouldn't pay for? Wouldn't economists simply say that for those items...
...reach everybody," Bennett has changed his mind. He announced last week that he will lead the nation's first for-profit online elementary and secondary school, called K12, that will begin enrolling students in grades K-2 next fall and will eventually have students in every grade. Enrollees can download course material and exchange e-mail messages with a teacher. Bennett, who refers to himself as K12's "principal," has recruited Harvard computer scientist (and Unabomber victim) David Gelernter as his chief technology adviser, and is currently hiring a teaching staff. Gelernter has also criticized online teaching as mostly "games...