egd;253792 Wrote: > Have I misunderstood your point or are you implying that you should not > be able to rip a CD you have purchased, so as to make the tracks > available to slimserver and perhaps even create mp3 tracks to copy to > your portable music player?
Oops :) No, that's not my view at all. I'd be kind of a hypocrite if it were! Taken to a logical extreme my view would allow an artist/publisher to specify that restriction if they wanted to but I think copyright law actually puts some useful restrictions on what can be required - e.g. by allowing things like format and time shifting. I'm happy to pay for a license to listen to music, but I do object to having to pay for 5 licenses :) Likewise I don't think that a ringtone is a seperate copyrightable work given that it's basically just a 30 second sample of the original recording, but AFAIK that one's yet to be tested. The copy I was referring to in your quote would be a person-to-person copy via file sharing, borrow & rip, tape-to-tape, or whatever the technology du jour is. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41571 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
