Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P

plainwhitetoast recommends an article in La Repubblica.it — in Italian, Google translation here. According to Italian lawyer Andrea Monti, an expert on copyright and Internet law, the new Italian copyright law would authorize users to publish and freely share copyrighted music (p2p included). The new law, already approved by both legislative houses, indeed says that one is allowed to publish freely, through the Internet, free of charge, images and music at low resolution or "degraded," for scientific or educational use, and only when such use is not for profit. As Monti says in the interview, those who wrote it didn't realize that the word "degraded" is technical, with a very precise meaning, which includes MP3s, which are compressed with an algorithm that ensures a quality loss. The law will be effective after the appropriate decree of the ministry, and will probably have an impact on pending p2p judicial cases.

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Re:mafIAA

[Corporate Troll]

And everone knows what the mafia does with competitors.

No, I don't... I haven't seen any competitors to the mafia in ages... there used to be some. Where have they gone? Last time I heard something about fishes, but a fishing trip can't last that long, eh?

Re:Makes sense: share MP3, but not WAV from CDs

[philicorda]

If it's crap, why are people downloading it, sharing it, whistling and dancing to it?

Your argument boils down to 'because I can get it illegally for free, it's not worth paying for'.

People can live perfectly well without pop music. You don't have a divine right to download as much music as you like just because you feel your tastes are superior to other people's, so refined that only the very very best deserves your unwilling patronage.