<soupnazi> no fair use for you!

[Cat Chapman]

Why don't we do what France is doing, just make P2P legal (as long as
it's for personal use), and add extra taxes on CD writers and blank CDs.
A real music artist wouldn't care if you were downloading/copying their
albums. They should encourage it, it's getting their music out.
Darn greedy record companies and the RIAA.
Another day, another ton of hatred that builds up inside of me because
of the RIAA...

-Cat

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:12 -0700, ben francom wrote:
> On 2/16/06, Technomage <technomage-hawke at cox.net> wrote:
>         this goes a lot further than just backing up and format
>         shifting.
>         
>         
>         -> RIAA et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use
>         
>         -> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060215-6190.html
>         
>         "If anyone has any doubts about the content industry's resolve
>         to destroy fair
>         use and usher in new ways of charging you for uses that were
>         previously both
>         free and fair, look no further."
> 
> 
> Yep, they want to "plug the analog hole."  And put their stranglehold
> on consumers and OUR media.
> Check This link for the "new" DMCA aka Digital Transition Content
> Security Act or DTCSA:
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004261.php
> 
> You can write your local gov. officials and oppose these outrageous
> laws.  
> The EFF has a form setup:
> https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr008=16x34klkt3.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=181
> 
> You may want to checkout Wikipedia on the subject of the "Digital
> Transition Content Security Act"
> 
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