On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:27:04 +0100, Pete B <xxxh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>> If someone copies and DISTRIBUTES such copies, they are breaking
>> copyright law (and in the case of digital reproduction, the DCMA).
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>So now you wish to change the subject from "it's stealing" to "it is
>against the law"? If you do that means you agree it is not stealing.
Charging admission without license or copying a copy (bootlegging) is
stealing in every sense of the word, too. I think that the DCMA goes
*far* beyond the scope of reason in shutting down the fair use private
copying, but that doesn't make retransmission of any digital copy any
less the stealing that it is.
Which, btw, is a large part of the reason that DVD and successor
"hard" copies -- recorded objects, whether it's DVD, data crystals,
whatever -- won't disappear even though the studios want to try to
make them disappear in order to control access and charge admission
for every single access of every single TV show or movie. Books,
comics, newspapers and magazines haven't disappeared just because the
Internets exist. And the more that the cor****ations try to charge
access fees for every single access of a given property, the more the
public will get fed up with them ala the original DivX fiasco, but on
a much larger scale of magnitude.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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