Hi Chris, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I'm not terribly keen on an advertised public demonstration of how to nick a track off a cd. Doing that is essentially giving public lessons on how to commit the crime of intellectual property theft, not exactly a suitable activity for a CLUG evening imho.
If you could possibly do something different for items 1 & 2 that would be a good idea.
I appreciate your concerns Chris, however I feel very different to you. I do not feel that file swapping is illegal or even morally wrong. BUT, that is besides the point, there are many "legitimate" needs to rip tracks from a CD, the least of which is transferring ones own CD collection to MP3-.ogg.
I am sorry, I will not eliminate this topic/s since this is one of the MAJOR uses of a Windows PeeCee these days. I get asked almost daily if this can be done in Linux. It can, with an awesome graphical interface to boot. Also, it is interesting to note that even under US copyright law, it is perfectly legal to rip and trade music files, it is illegal to MAKE MONEY from them. The litigation in the courts ALWAYS centers around commercial operations that make money off either a) selling pirated CD's or b) building a business off of wholesale piracy eg. a file trading service that sells advertising which makes money off the provided pirated files ie. content draws visitors which view the advertising.
If you have any further ideas, please advise and I will try and include 1 or 2 of them. So, here is your chance, all of you that want part of the meetings to focus on the desktop!!
You might care to bring to life, so as to speak, my 6 page KDE applications document plus anything else you know about. This could look visually stunning if done under KDE-3.1
Can you explain further please. Cheers Jason
