Hey, What if I took Badru's website, content and all and re"broadcat" it, would that be acceptable/ ...to him?
The good book says, "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you". A wrong thing does not become right bcause there is no law in our land agaist it or because no one has seen you commitit, or because everybody does it and gets away with it, afterall!! I am not sure that Badru's experiment is beyond reproach. As a technologica adventure, it gains a lot of mileage, but it may not escape the legal/moral scrutiny. Pirate bay did something like that for a long time until they were sent to jail for it. You probably want to go on trying until someone gets your neck for it. Good luck. Chris Kasangaki On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 13:20 +0300, Tim Schofield wrote: > On 10/08/2010, 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. > > > > Recording the radio station for your own use is "fair use". > > Re-broadcasting it is not. It really is that simple. > > I know I am an outsider and you are all trying to back up Badru, but > face it your position is not tenable. What he is doing is just plain > wrong. You can use semantics such as "grey area" "archiving" "cloning" > but at the end of the day, > > "he has taken something that doesnt belong to him without the > permission of the owner". > > I have repeated the above endless times on this thread and nobody has > been able to challenge that statement. anybody care to give it a go? > -- Team Leader Community Open Software Solutions Network P.O. Box 25599 Kampala, Uganda. Mobile: +256772648222, +256701648224 Fax, Voice, Int.: +447092178997 Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail:chriskasangaki skype: kris-kay _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
