A good analogy for this situation (IMHO anyway) is audio books. Suppose you buy an audio book and play it on a tape player. If you then copy down everything you hear in a book and sell it as notes, you have pretty much just distributed a copy of the book...hence violation of copywrite.
Of course, it's stupid to impose something like this on students. Can you imagine what you'd hear if you were a prof:
...that if I commit a crime and they catch me because I left a partial fingerprint somewhere, BUT I can prove that I tried to wipe all my fingerprints away, that they have to let me go?
I don't know if this is unique to us here in Alberta, but some of us already have metered access. For those of us with cable modems, we get x/y bytes of upload/download per month, and pay metered access afterwards.
It was just in our paper a few days ago...some poor sot started up napster for the first time, grabbed 100's of songs, and then left their computer on for the rest of the month. $1800 bill at the end.
Paul Boutin from Wired approached me to help them do a Holiday Present list for last minute shoppers... but I'm lazy so I figured I'd ask you guys to help (in exchange for your services, the $750 writers fee will be donated to the EFF to help make sure that the net is still free next thursday).
My boss approached me to get me to do my job...but I'm lazy so I figured I'd ask you guys to help (in exchange for your services, the money I make will be donated to the bank on behalf of my mortgage)
"to back legislation to make it legal to keep digital copies of your music"
Huh?
At what point did this become illegal? If you buy the CD, then you are allowed to make MP3s of the songs.
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Step 2: Take a societal issue (i.e. racism)
Step 3: Attempt to merge the two completely unrelated issues.
The fact he has a B.A. in Computing Science should have clued you all in.
Of course, it's stupid to impose something like this on students. Can you imagine what you'd hear if you were a prof:
prof: You failed this test!
student: Only because I didn't have your notes.
prof: Why not?
student: I didn't want to violate any laws.
Sheesh.
...that if I commit a crime and they catch me because I left a partial fingerprint somewhere, BUT I can prove that I tried to wipe all my fingerprints away, that they have to let me go?
It was just in our paper a few days ago...some poor sot started up napster for the first time, grabbed 100's of songs, and then left their computer on for the rest of the month. $1800 bill at the end.
Ouch
...the gov't wants this done before Chri$tma$ whlie m$ wants this to drag on for 5 months. If Bush gets office it's a given the case will disappear.
My boss approached me to get me to do my job...but I'm lazy so I figured I'd ask you guys to help (in exchange for your services, the money I make will be donated to the bank on behalf of my mortgage)
"to back legislation to make it legal to keep digital copies of your music" Huh? At what point did this become illegal? If you buy the CD, then you are allowed to make MP3s of the songs.