'It is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies... Virtually all of the sound recordings... are in the ".mp3" format for his and his wife's use... Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the compressed.mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies...'
so under that logic, wouldn't it be "unauthorized distribution" to merely let his wife listen to the CDs themselves?
President Reagan once had a short radio program... one of them was about the slow and steady lose of freedom and how he remembered back in the day when you didn't have to have a license to drive a car, let alone have a license plate on your car.
Imagine if you had to have a Horse Riders License and you had to Register your horse and have a License Plate on your horse.
You do realize that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your own home either... the cops fly overhead in helicopters or surveillance aircraft and look into your backyard or do an infrared heat scan of your house. They then use the evidence that they "legally" gathered to obtain a search warrant to come onto your property to seize the suspected contraband. So much for your person, houses, papers, and effects being secure from unreasonable search and seizure.
They may not be able to detect contraband... but it could bring up the "Registered Owner" and their list of "priors" which could then be used to profile a car in the hopes that the driver would be the registered owner and then search them for contraband.
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'It is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies... Virtually all of the sound recordings... are in the ".mp3" format for his and his wife's use... Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies...'
so under that logic, wouldn't it be "unauthorized distribution" to merely let his wife listen to the CDs themselves?
President Reagan once had a short radio program... one of them was about the slow and steady lose of freedom and how he remembered back in the day when you didn't have to have a license to drive a car, let alone have a license plate on your car.
Imagine if you had to have a Horse Riders License and you had to Register your horse and have a License Plate on your horse.
You do realize that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your own home either... the cops fly overhead in helicopters or surveillance aircraft and look into your backyard or do an infrared heat scan of your house. They then use the evidence that they "legally" gathered to obtain a search warrant to come onto your property to seize the suspected contraband. So much for your person, houses, papers, and effects being secure from unreasonable search and seizure.
They may not be able to detect contraband... but it could bring up the "Registered Owner" and their list of "priors" which could then be used to profile a car in the hopes that the driver would be the registered owner and then search them for contraband.