On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:25:09PM -0800, Michael O'Keefe spake thusly: > >Am I allowed to have a digital version of 'Star Wars' I got > >from Bit Torrent if I own a 10 year old VHS copy?? > > Good luck find digital versions of stuff you have on VHS > If it's that old, it's not likely someone has bothered to rip it > You mean a rip of a digital version ? > Provided they are the same content, I couldnt' see why not
Unfortunately copyright is way more complicated than anyone here likely realizes. The average man can no longer have an informed opinion on what may or may not be legal when it comes to copyright and the entertainment industry is constantly complicating things further and trying to take away more fair use rights. What you suggest above is what got MP3.com into trouble. MP3 decided that if the end user owned the original CD they should have access to an MP3 version on our servers. That turned out to be very much not the case and it took a lot of lawyers and a judge to come to that conclusion. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig
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