Hi all,
Seems a bit of a hot cookie today, this copyright stuff. Perhaps satan delivered a CD
or
two to some peeps for xmas and they are already thinking of all the CDs their friends
must have received and are counting their supply of blank MDs.
And why not? Copyright law sucks. Big time. My view is so long as you don't sell
unauthorised recordings of music, films, games, or anything for a profit, then it's
sorta
alright and I dunno why anyone gets so excited. The one minor exception to this would
be a program I released as shareware and which I received a fair amount of cash for
and would hope anyone who hacked the registration is doomed to eternal damnation!
We're not talking about bootlegging CDs by the tens or hundreds of thousands, just
you and a mate helping each other out. I'm not even talking about burning a few copies
of a top album in your CD-RW drive and selling them at a car boot sale (which I
disagree
with), it's getting a copy of something you would never have bought anyway so nobody
loses out. At least thats what I tell myself when I take a shed full of CDs back to
the
local library and stop off at Richer Sounds to replenish my supply of blank MDs :-)
C'mon guys, this is a MiniDisc list. We've all got minidisc stuff and I bet 99% of you
have used it for unauthorised recordings. If we really want to enter the silly season
spirit, recording works from the radio is illegal, so is the film "The Italian Job"
I'm taping
here in England from the BBC- despite paying a television licence fee :-( Well if I
give
them to my neighbour to watch / listen to it is. Minidisc was made for copying CDs,
why
were the discs 74min long the same as CDs? Now that some CDs break the standard
up to about 80mins, guess what... 80min MDs!!!
I would like to point out that the above are my views and do not necessarily represent
the law of this or any other country, and that I am not indicating that I have actually
performed any of the above activities whether stated explicitly or implied. Does that
satisfy you legal types out there? Rat?
Cheers,
PrinceGaz -- "Blessed Be."
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