Victor;158471 Wrote: > Interesting viewpoint. I assume you then also agree with the US > arresting Dmitry Sklyarov when he was in the US? > > Details here for those unfamilar with the case: > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html > > If you don't agree with Sklyarov's arrest, please explain the > differences in legal principles between the two cases.
I actually struggle to see the parallels - AllOfMP3 sold, directly, stuff that was someone else's copyright, without paying them for it. I don't like a lot of what the record companies are doing re downloads, DRM and the like, but I do recognise the necessity for them to make money from their artists (and, indeed, pay some of that to the artist!) Cracking a proprietary system might be a copyright breach, and it might then allows others to break copyright directly, but it's certainly a long way short of directly selling others' copyrighted material. My personal view is to welcome challenges to DRM restrictions, as I think the long-term solution has to be a radical rethink of how fair use works and how artists are remunerated (I don't really have answers beyond that). Trying to close ranks around the challenges is not the way. Oh and I agree that the 'confirmed' word in my earlier post was ill-advised, but I still think they're crooks ;) Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28858 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
