So its perfectly legal to store the song in our memory (brain) and broadcast it (hum or sing tour ourselves) yet it's illegal to store it on our computer memory (hard drive... I only used "memory" for the sake of the analogy). So... When are brain drives shipping?
This was a well written and timely article by one of my favorite authors. But I winced at one particular sentance:
"If you got together with a few of your neighbors and each of you bought different CDs and then lent them to each other, that wouldn't even violate copyright."
Is this true? Certainly it can't be if the only distinction of violating the copyright is geographical distance. Can give anyone give any answers?
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Before anyone starts debating the legitimacy of the study, perhaps they should read the actual study:
a tions/nsdi/2004/
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tzoompy/public
*make sure to remove that space in the word publications
This has been done before though along other lines: http://www.muropaketti.com/artikkelit/cooling/r300 _ln2/
So its perfectly legal to store the song in our memory (brain) and broadcast it (hum or sing tour ourselves) yet it's illegal to store it on our computer memory (hard drive... I only used "memory" for the sake of the analogy). So... When are brain drives shipping?
This was a well written and timely article by one of my favorite authors. But I winced at one particular sentance:
"If you got together with a few of your neighbors and each of you bought different CDs and then lent them to each other, that wouldn't even violate copyright."
Is this true? Certainly it can't be if the only distinction of violating the copyright is geographical distance. Can give anyone give any answers?