Since people have forgotten what is meant by the fair use clause and also that before the rise of P2P software. The giving away of copies by individuals was probably not that big or percieved by the content providers as not that much of a problem. Now with P2P software and here in the U.S. people forgetting what is meant by personal in the fair use clause, I can understand some of the alarm. Personal ae reference by the Fair Use clause means just YOU, the original purchaser may make and keep copies of content that they have obtain from retailers. Fair Use doesn't mean you can give away copies of content to friends,relatives or strangers. It means those copies stay in your possesion or else you obtain permission from the copyright holder to distribute.
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What about the meteor showers that happen, some annually? These could act like sand blasting?
I stand corrected, but I remember reading a interpetation by either a lawyer or judge when it was asked about fair use in context of personal copying.
Since people have forgotten what is meant by the fair use clause and also that before the rise of P2P software. The giving away of copies by individuals was probably not that big or percieved by the content providers as not that much of a problem. Now with P2P software and here in the U.S. people forgetting what is meant by personal in the fair use clause, I can understand some of the alarm. Personal ae reference by the Fair Use clause means just YOU, the original purchaser may make and keep copies of content that they have obtain from retailers. Fair Use doesn't mean you can give away copies of content to friends,relatives or strangers. It means those copies stay in your possesion or else you obtain permission from the copyright holder to distribute.