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Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions
Zeta writes "The answers are finally in! Stanford's Lawrence Lessig and the RIAA's Matt Oppenheim have responded to all the tough questions on copyrighted music, many from Slashdot readers, for the online part of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Take a look - some of the responses may surprise you." We ran the original call for questions a few weeks back.
We don't need Kazaa because the transcript and an audio clip is posted on the website at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/do wnloading_4-24.html.
Why was the parent a troll? Have a sense of humor, asshats.
You know, I think the mistake was made when the monopoly right granted was named "copyright" instead of "publishingright".
Copying, in any and all forms, of any work, should be legal. *Publishing* (aka distributing copies to the public) is what should be restricted.
But, since it's called "copyright", we have lawyers that argue that running a program is a copyright infringment, since a copy of the program is made from disk to RAM, and we have to use "fair use" as a defense for private copying. If it were "publishingright", people wouldn't get into these silly arguements to start with.
itunes's format can't be burned to cd
Not only can purchases from the iTunes Music Store be recorded in Red Book format to Compact Disc Digital Audio Recordable media, but a given playlist can be burned three times.
iTunes Music Store is currently in a beta test and is scheduled for full deployment in December.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Say Lye Ow who is currently serving 24 months for a felony charge of trade secret violation would tend to disagree with you that trade secrets aren't protected by law. Look up the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Here are the current cases.