At 10:56 AM 6/8/01, Chad Cooper wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:34 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Copy protected CDs
> >
> >
> > At 12:14 PM 6/5/01 -0700 Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> > >Please pass this on. When copy protected discs hit the
> > stores DON'T BUY
> > >THEM. Tell the record companies this whole thing absolutely
> > sucks and we
> > >want our fair use back! As for piracy: yeah, it's a long
> > term thing but
> > >the only way to stop piracy is to teach better ethics in
> > schools. Most
> > >people who download so called pirate MP3s do not consider it
> > stealing -
> > >this tells me we need to change the way we educate our young.
> >
> > Actually, I do cosider it stealing - and do it anyway.*
>
>Let me add something here - and this goes for computer game piracy as well.
>I believe that most thefts of intellectual property does not impact the
>profits of these companies, in fact I would argue that these thefts actually
>increase profits long term.
>Most mp3's or games stolen(pirates, ripped, shared, whatever) are items that
>the perp (That's you John ;-) ) would have most likely not purchased anyway.
>
>[snip]
>
>BTW - The CD copy protection technology is extremely buggy, and will almost
>immediatly be rejected by consumers. Not for its anti-piracy attempts, but
>for the simple fact that as much as 25% of all CD/CD-ROM players will not be
>able to play the music. Can you imagine the outrage if commercial CD's do
>not work in every CD player?
Let me say at the outset that I'm not a Napster user, and the number of
musical pieces I have downloaded in the form of .mp3 files could probably
be counted on the fingers of one hand. However, I put together a lot of
materials for class and record them on CD-ROM, so anything that might make
different machines incompatible will cause me problems.
Also, I heard something a couple of weeks or so ago about the prices of
blank CDs being supposed to triple this summer. Anyone else hear that, and
do you know if it has anything to do with the anti-piracy issue?
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P.S. I'm still curious if the following quote refers to "Roman Catholic"
social thought and if so, why specifically that denomination?
> >
> > "Compassionate conservatism is the way to reconcile the two most vital
> > conservative intellectual traditions: libertarianism & Catholic social
> > thought."
> > -Michael Gerson, advisor to George W. Bush
> >
-- Ronn! :)
