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The war between the Meta Society and Cyber Society continues. After RIAA successfully eliminated Napster who made available the peer to peer file sharing technology to its Cyber community, it is now the turn of Audiogalxy to face the music of legal action from RIAA.

The fight between RIAA and Napster like companies is not merely a fight for Copyright law of the meta society and its applicability on the Cyber society. It questions the very concept of "Community". In disallowing the use of file sharing as a technology, the society seems to be de recognizing the existence of  a Cyber Community created by a common interest and shoulder to shoulder connectivity.

If similar argument is extended to the Meta society, there are doubts if any "Music Sabha" or "Music Club" can play a record in its community hall, nor a family play a record in the sitting room and share a cassette with several of its members.

A follow up issue that comes up in this case is whether it would not be discriminatory to hold that the "Community" concept will be disallowed on the Net while the "Family" and "Music Club"  concepts in the Meta society stay.

Will this fight for supremacy of Meta Society rights over Cyber Society norms  benefit the larger community of Netizens+Citizens? is a question that the we need to answer for the sake of future generations.

Naavi

 May 28, 2002

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