Downloading music = photocopying a page in a book. Yes, if that one page encapsulates at least one entirely complete piece of work.
Otherwise, photocopying a page in a book would be likened to perhaps downloading a snippet of a song. Depending on how you use that snippet, it may be covered by fair use.
Get your analogies straight. Oh, wait...this is Slashdot. Nevermind...let fly with the inane analogies!
Poor you! Now, every other week where you'll want to join a new forum (that's a LOT of forums), you'll have to solve two CAPTCHAs instead of one! Waaaaaah!
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Oh, the irony.
Yes, if that one page encapsulates at least one entirely complete piece of work. Otherwise, photocopying a page in a book would be likened to perhaps downloading a snippet of a song. Depending on how you use that snippet, it may be covered by fair use. Get your analogies straight. Oh, wait...this is Slashdot. Nevermind...let fly with the inane analogies!
Poor you! Now, every other week where you'll want to join a new forum (that's a LOT of forums), you'll have to solve two CAPTCHAs instead of one! Waaaaaah!
Heh. peppersnail@yahoo.com. Ping me.