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The Law and P2P
Anonymous Coward writes "Here's some interesting legal commentary on the continuing saga of copyright enforcement and Apple's attempt at a constructive approach."
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I'd read that article, but isn't it copyrighted by the person who wrote it?
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I wouldn't want to break the law or anything
Apparently your magic-8-ball has never had the pleasure to use it personally.
My magic-8-ball has been formerly introduced to the product. When I asked it's opinion, I recieved "Outlook not good".
Try exposing your 8-ball, and rechecking it's results. If the message does not change, you may have a defective 8-ball, and should call the manufacturer for a replacement.
Sell at $1 a song until business gets sluggish, then surprise users with a $20 a month, download-all-the-songs-you-want subsription service. Everyone goes gah-gah because they have been paying $100-a-binge for songs and signs up for the service. Mac users revel in the fantastic deal they're getting from Jobs.
RIAA now has the business model it wants, though Apple gets a small cut, in that instead of people paying $17 a few times a year for a cd, they now have them automatically paying $240 a year. Cell-phone pricing syndrome has everyone blissfully unaware that they are paying way more than they ever wanted to in the first place and the RIAA uses the extra dough to have public executions of P2P software engineers.
No no no, you've got it all wrong... the blanket term is "Napster-like theft ring" nowadays. :)
Yeah, they still make CDs. Too bad they stopped making metal.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
I see so many articles about this but even on a law site the OBVIOUS point is still missed. These are TOOLS. Tools do not break the law, people break the law. If there is even one small legitimate use to a certain piece of software, no one should have any argument against its use even if millions are breaking the law with it. HTTP and FTP can and ARE used to host files that violate copyright. So can Windows file and print sharing, my goodness, you can even encode hidden files inside of picture files. Are all of these going to be outlawed by the government and the RIAA and MPAA? Get a grip. Go after the ones breaking the law not the tools people are using to do it.
Moral rant *****
ALSO just because you break the law doesn't mean your not on the moral high ground.
Mull over the following fact:
I am definitely to the point of refusing to buy CD's and movies because I am treated like a criminal.
Yes... I use it. I just downloaded all of Fallen by Evanescence. I liked it so much that I went to their website and tried to find ANY method to pay them directly because I REFUSE to give any money to the RIAA. There is no way to do it there. I know there sites out there that are trying to do this but there should be the option to pay the artists directly because I want to KNOW where my money is going.
I'm not saying I'm right and that I'm not hypocritical by doing this and finding excuses not to pay, but I'm fed up with it. There has to be another way.
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.