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canyonman - unclear what your point is. Didn't say "everybody" would steal it. I said that everyone on Kazaa and other such nets who are already ripping music would most likely continue to do the same regardless of how the music industry morphed their availability/publishing/distribution...

Which one is likely to make the group the most money?? Getting a contract with a label would invariably make them more money. But in the absence of such a contract, self-marketing is an avenue. Although simply posting all their music on a P2P network wouldn't generate any money. Those...

It's only a point of contention for those who don't know what a copyright is. It's NEVER a sale, it's always a license to use. They're never selling the copyrighted material, they're only licensing its use. You can't buy a book and then copy it and start distributing to thousands of people...

Who decides that they're "profiteering"? You!! There's nothing wrong with profiting from creating something new. If you don't like it, don't buy it. But arguing that it's OK to steal it because YOU think the creator (or the current copyright owner) is making too much money is ludicrous...

If your NOT joking (hopefully you are) - who exactly is "they"? The artist, the author, the songwriter, the playwrite? The person/people who created whatever it is that people apparently think is worth listening, watching, reading, etc. (but would rather steal than pay for)? And whether...

Regionalization was indeed raised with regard to fair use - but it's NOT a fair use issue. Too many people think that buying a CD or DVD grants them unlimited rights - it doesn't. It grants them fair use within the limits of the initial access license granted to them by the copyright owner...

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aphie - you proved my point about people not understanding (or caring) that downloading a pirated song from some website IS stealing. You might view it as a "free sample" that gets you to buy the CD - millions don't. They just download all the "free samples" they want and burn their own...

The amendment to 1201 you mention is clarification. The DMCA already does NOT prohibit circumvention of copy protection technology for what would be considered fair use. It does prohibit circumvention access protection technology since there are no scenarios under which that would be fair...

Doug - Per DMCA Section 1201, technological protective measures are described and separated into those that prevent unauthorized ACCESS to copyrighted material and those that prevent unauthorized USE of copyrighted material. The DMCA only prohibits circumventing the first category which...

Harry - having US citizenship has nothing to do with having a SSN. You don't become a US citizen BECAUSE you have an SSN. Just ask those born in the US of non-US citizens - they automatically have US citizenship. Not because they got an SSN, but because they were born here.

You're being too sensitive - there was nothing in my post(s) specifically intended to be directed at you or your posts nor ridiculing you. My comments were about the general climate of "it's OK to steal" that these MP3 sharing sites breed.

Lots of rationalizations for why it's OK to steal copyrighted material - but none of them any good. If an artist wants to go direct and market his music via the internet and cut out the middle man, they can do it. But if they're using the resources of Capitol or another production and...

Whether a CD only has one good tune on it or not isn't the issue - if you want to buy a bunch of CDs and extract individual tunes and build your own consolidated CD, you can do that without infringing on copyrights. It's when you rip the tracks and start sharing them with a bunch of other...

The Radeon 9000 problem might be something similar, don't know. There are about a dozen manufacturers of OEM boards using the Radeon 9000 chips. The distinction (as with the Matrox issue) is "built" by ATI (which are boards built by ATI themselves) or just "powered" by ATI (which are the...

A friend of mine had the same problem with a G450 he bought off ebay. It was an IBM OEM version. OEM cards like IBM and Hewlett Packard OEM cards (the serial # indicates to Matrox whether they're Matrox or an OEM version) use the Matrox video chips but not necessarily the Matrox video bios...

If you're using W2K or XP, check the Disk Management utility - you should be able to create a mirrored set without bothering with a RAID controller (unless you're building a high performance server that's going to be taking lots of disk traffic, you shouldn't need a seperate controller). As...

Don't know about that book, but many years ago I did see a book (some blackjack "system" scam) printed on photoreactive paper that turned black if the bright light of a photocopier hit the page. Problem was that it also turned black if you left it in direct sunlight too long. Can't imagine a...

The back and forth is interesting (not a single Jane You Ignorant Slut yet either - that's refreshing). Optional77 - since you raise the idea several times of a black attorney better representing those from the lower socioeconomic strata - how many black Harvard (or insert any top tier law...

Some global warming zealots routinely underestimate the fact that global climate is always changing - the various ice ages or the Dust Bowl weren't caused by CFCs and millions of automobile exhausts. The Sahara Desert used to be a rainforest - the climate didn't change due to excess camel...