Traffic Tickets Was: Fw: Attack of the Killer RIAA FUD App
(Was Re: know people in .ut.us?)
Frank Mandato
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
23 Jun 2003 09:02:49 -0700
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 07:43, Derek Neighbors wrote
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>
> In the same way if people are downloading music like mad and violating
> copyright. This tells me there is something wrong with music
> distribution schemes and copyright law. We don't need a way to 'big
> brother' the public, we need to fix the problems in distribution and
> copyright law.
>
I believe it no different than taping a movie from pay per view, it is
legal to record for your own use, not to redistribute.
Had napster paid royalties this would have been a non-issue.
Licensed software, of course, is somewhat different.
Just my $.02 worth.
FrankM