From: L.W. Brown (lwb_at_mac.com)
Date: Sat Jul 09 2005 - 16:38:34 PDT
Knock yourself out! RIAA cops haven't ever bothered with folks who use
a coupl`a songs - more like thousands of `em. Also, you're Legal as
long as you don't share `em. The reasoning is you only own the right to
listen, not distribute. (Same with CDs, DVDs, and books, unless you're
a public library lending for free.) Also, the WiFi situation is
different. Maybe your neighbor is fine as long as you`all are not on at
the same time, but if you are, then you are using more of the ISP's
bandwidth than you paid for. Water is even more strange. Usually you
pay separate water & sewer fees, but the only the water is measured. So
you pay for the sewer even if the water goes to somebody's yard. Also,
the water is only being used once no matter who pays, so the
company/city just don't care. But try & sell recycled water & see what
happens...
On 8. Jul, 2005, at 14:50, mkow1234_at_aol.com wrote:
> ...the music in question was broadcast world-wide as part of a global
> FREE concert/protest to draw attention to the economic plight of
> African nations. It was being re-broadcast by my ISP, which I am sure
> had to pay SOMETHING for the privilege to show this bit of
> "look-here-we-have-everything-you-want" content. Well, I ALSO pay a
> fee to the ISP for the privilege of being able to view/listen to
> content over my cable modem connection. Once the content gets to my
> headphone jack, I can do anything with the content that I so choose --
> within practical reason. If I print out a cheesy picture of Jessica
> Alba bending over a bike (Doesn't THAT sound nice?), does that mean I
> owe the television studio conglomerate money for the right to print
> out my own copy of the grainy photograph? If I purchase water from the
> municipal water department and my neighbor asks me to help water the
> landscaping plants near my fence, that does not mean that the neighbor
> also must pay a fee for the same water, does it? I know that some
> folks make the same argument in defense of Wi-Fi broadcasting their
> cable modem signal to their immediate neighbors (Something that I
> don't do, by the way, even though I COULD...). Once they pay for it,
> and they're at the end of the pipe so to speak, what they do with the
> remaining weakened signal is their own business...
> ...
> Now, I DON'T have Internet access for my Newton anymore (unless
> there's a way to get Internet via the LAN, or possibly if Comcast
> offered a dial-up that supported the Newton platform), so I have no
> easy way to DISTRIBUTE the songs. Theoretically, if folks were to mail
> me a small flash memory card, I could beam/copy over serial connection
> the songs onto their memory card and then mail it back. If Sony views
> THAT as a threat to their corporation, I'll be happy to see them in
> court. Ha! Put 'em up! Put 'em up!
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