To add to Noah's statement, Tim here suggests that owning a PVR decoder
makes you a "THIEF" sigh



On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Noah Sematimba <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> After reading all the posts on this topic, my personal view is this:
>
> Badru's experiment does not seem to infringe on copyright law in my
> opinion. Afterall if all of us, setup our PCs to record these radio
> broadcasts and then accessed them later, would all of us also be accused of
> infringing on the IP rights of the performers who were featured on those
> shows?
> In the first place, those particular radios broadcast free of charge to
> everyone. If there are any IP issues, those issues are between the radio
> stations and the performers not between someone who provides an archive
> service and the performers.
>
> Afterall the only difference here is the time period in which I listen to
> the broadcast. In one case I am listening to it live and in another I am
> listening to old stuff. Just like TVs do not pay again to do re-runs of a
> series they already paid for.
>
> Noah.
>
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