know people in .ut.us?

[Robert Wultsch]

Here comes a story...

Until about a a year ago I did was a windows only user that had no 
liscenes for the software I had. As I tend to be rather moral in the end 
it was just not tenable. About the same time that I got rid of all of my 
illegal software I got a bunch of cd's ripped off. I had no qualms about 
replacing my stolen music with mp3's.

At this point I realy wonder if my I have a greater chance of being 
raided by jbt with my legal  (I did all my shopping online if it ever 
comes to that) music as opposed when I had software that was not on the 
up and up. I really get the feeling that software companies blow off 
consumer copyright infringment, while the riaa/mpaa is very heavy handed.

And for the record I am now compleatly legal (even my windows boxes for 
the first time since 3.1) and even now lecture people about alternatives 
to copyright infringment (i.e. the gimp for windows over stealing 
photoshop, openoffice instead of office).


der.hans wrote:
> Am 18. Jun, 2003 schwätzte Voltage Spike so:
> 
> 
>>Essentially, he is stating that if the consumer electronics industry
>>cannot quickly release a solution, then the government will legislate
>>a solution for them.
> 
> 
> You know, it might be interesting if consumers were the ones to offer a
> solution. An interesting one might be to not download copyrighted material
> you haven't paid for :).
> 
> For me that means I miss out on most of the American content because I avoid
> giving money to orgs like the RIAA and MPAA. There are plenty of good,
> independent bands that aren't yet in their clutches, though.
> 
> It would be cool if those were the bands that were most downloaded...
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans