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  • From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Spinster
  • Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:45:31 -0400


Looks like the music industry is not the only business roiled over
file-sharing:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/03/stitch.reut/index.html

Needlepoint enthusiasts are trading patterns freely over the Internet,
and the publishers have their knickers in a wad.

I love it:

""This strikes at the heart of the needlepoint industry. The people who
are doing
this seem to have a hacker's mentality," said Jo Weiss, executive
secretary of the International Needleart Retailers Guild."

TaB



  • Spinster, Thomas Beckett, 08/04/2000

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