OT?: Legal question about p2p

[Erik Bixby]

With goings on in my personal life I seem to be a little more
excitable than I would otherwise be...  The Freenet Project looks very
interesting.  I am looking forward to getting home, so I can play with
it.  :)  Thanks again, guys.
-Erik

On 6/1/05, der.hans <PLUG@lufthans.com> wrote:
> Am 01. Jun, 2005 schw=E4tzte Erik Bixby so:
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> > I apologize to Alan for my response.  I realized, just after hitting
> > the "send" button, that I could have been a little less emotional.
> > However, it is frustrating that all p2p file sharing is just assumed
> > to be illicit.  This seems, to me, to be a big win on the part of the
> > **IAs.
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> Yes, it is annoying. I look at my Azureus stats on my laptop and I see
> that I have a share rating of almost 100[1] for the Open CD, which is all
> Free Software and freely redistributable. I have uploaded over 80 GB[2]
> from my laptop in the last couple of months. All 100% legal.
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> If the debian shares didn't keep breaking I'd've shared even more.
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> I don't know how much I've shared elsewhere because bittorrent and
> bittornado don't show cumulutive stats.
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> > To my mind, if two people own a particular CD, they ought to be able
> > to exchange .mp3 files from that CD without outside interference.  Of
> > course, not being a lawyer, I don't actually know if there is a law
> > somewhere that would prevent this...  The fact that all p2p file
> > sharing is just assumed to be illegal is wrong, to me.  What if a CD I
> > own becomes scratched and unplayable?  Should I not be able to listen
> > to .mp3 files of the CD that I own, even though the physical media has
> > been damaged?  There are legitimate reasons for exchanging .mp3 files,
> > imho.  I think it should be a matter of personal responsibility, as to
> > whether or not the files being downloaded by an individual are being
> > downloaded legally, and not just assumed to be illegal.  But, that's
> > me.  And, not being a lawyer, I thought I would ask the smartest group
> > of people I know.  :)
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> I don't know about that at this point. I do know, however, that I have
> specific permission from at least one band[3] to redistribute as much of
> their music as I want. There are others that have released under Creative
> Commons[4] licenses allowing redistribution.
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> [1] I've currently uploaded 94.395 times as many bits of the Open CD as
> I've downloaded.
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> [2] All Free Software, of course. Knoppix and debian ISOs as well as the
> aformentioned Open CD ISO.
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> [3] http://www.TravelerMusic.com/
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> [4] http://CreativeCommons.org/audio/
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> ciao,
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> der.hans
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