On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 09:00 AM, Steve Wollkind (by way of
Steve Wollkind [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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On Friday 24 October 2003 10:14, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:43:22PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
TM: the last two paragraphs
Sunder wrote:
To add to this:
There is no law stating that I cannot take my books and read them
backwards, skip every other word, read the odd chapters in reverse and the
even chapters forward, or try to decode the book by translating it to
another language, ask someone with better eyes
At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license at a
[Chronic readers can skip this..]
At 12:08 AM 10/25/03 -0400, BillyGOTO wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:11:27PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 02:04 PM, BillyGOTO wrote:
Not really. Libraries have to pay more than we do for their
subscriptions.
Be careful using the
At 07:01 AM 10/25/03 -0400, Sunder wrote:
If you bought an audio DVD and your car doesn't have a DVD player, or
your
only portable stereo system can only play tapes, you're not allowed to
legally copy the music off the DVD onto other media to play in other
devices.
IANAL so I'm not actually sure
Hollywood Preaches Anti-Piracy to Schools
Thu Oct 23, 3:09 PM ET
By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - As part of its campaign to thwart online music and
movie piracy, Hollywood is now reaching into school classrooms with a
program that denounces file-sharing and offers
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On Friday 24 October 2003 10:14, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:43:22PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
TM: the last two paragraphs were of course added by me. But the point
is still valid, that much of Hollywood's claims about illegal
At 07:43 AM 10/24/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
The problem with the central premise, of course, is that without some
Big
(Brother) Central Server, there's just no way to track simultaneous
usage, so
there's no way to assure that the number of
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license at a time. That is what a library is.
An
At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license at a
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:14:03PM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Major Variola writes:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:14 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:43:22PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
TM: the last two paragraphs were of course added by me. But the point
is still valid, that much of Hollywood's claims about illegal
listening are not really any different from
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 02:04 PM, BillyGOTO wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:14:03PM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Major Variola writes:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:43:22PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
TM: the last two paragraphs were of course added by me. But the point
is still valid, that much of Hollywood's claims about illegal
listening are not really any different from reading without buying
books and magazines in libraries. The
Steve Schear writes:
Why not have each individual's PC which offered to lend do the
accounting. This means their PC must be on-line whenever someone who
didn't pay wants to listen, limiting the number of copies available, but it
could be fully decentralized.
You'd have to piggyback this
At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Someone else must have thought up this idea, but I don't recall seeing
it. Please inform me nicely if you have seen it proposed before.
This sounds a lot like the SunnComm DRM system that got so much publicity
recently. (the one that
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:46, Steve Schear wrote:
Why couldn't this be applied on-line to music. Under current fair use
provisions readers and listeners who have purchased a work are allowed to
lend it out freely. Surely the number of people who want to read or listen
to a work are much
Major Variola writes:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that
I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license
at a time. That
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