Raymond Camden wrote: > While I despise the RIAA as much as anyone else - what exactly is wrong > with this? In theory, it only hurts people who are downloading music.
However, in practice it also hurt people that are using peer-to-peer networks to distribute their own content. Spoofs of non-copyrighted materials have also been found. > No one has the right to download > the latest track from Moby without paying for it. Depends on whether Moby wants royalties for it. Isn't that latest Eminem song released as a free download over the internet only? > As it stands - the > user quoted in the article got what he wanted - a sample - in this case > only 20 seconds - but no one says the record companies _must_ provide a > full copy of the song as a 'sample.' I think the record companies are right in defending their interests. But I wouldn't mind if they paid a bit more attention to collateral damage. If you are really interested in the subject, I would recommend you read some stuff from Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Uni). He published books on these issues, and an interview with him was published recently. Just the quote from the interview that says most about the lack of nuance from the IP owners: <quote> I was giving a talk at the New America Foundation. Jack Valenti from the Motion Picture Association of America stood up and talked about how awful it was that Stanford allowed a Morpheus server to exist on its network, and what did I think of this obvious technology to enable stealing? I told him I had a Morpheus server running on my machine at work, which was delivering my own content, both audio and text versions of lectures I’ve given. When I first made this available, the Stanford network police came in and pulled the plug on my server over the weekend because they thought I was engaging in "illegal acts." But I wasn’t engaging in illegal acts. It’s completely legal for me to distribute content that I have the copyright over, and this technology makes it very easy to do that. <quote> http://www.reason.com/0206/fe.jw.cyberspaces.shtml This tells exactly why I think that the current polarization is bad. Jochem ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
