Here is an interesting statement.
http://www.hrrc.org/gklein_statement.html
FOr the web impared, let me quote part of it. (Note this com e under
the fair use principle) Home Recording Should Not
Be Confused With Commercial Piracy
The fears that have been expressed over giving consumers the ability to
acquire and use home video
recorders were vastly overstated from the start. Home recording has
often been confused, intentionally
or otherwise, with commercial piracy. Home consumers are not pirates,
and their ordinary and entirely
legitimate practices do not have consequences that are remotely similar
to commercial piracy.
Pirates go into business in competition with authorized program
distributors, without making any
attempt to acquire the rights to do so. They make copies in large
batches, using professional equipment
comparable to that used by the authorized distributor. By contrast,
consumers generally record off the
air, or play back copies that they have rented or purchased. Those U.S.
consumers who do, wittingly or
unwittingly, acquire pirated goods need to have only a playback device
in their home. They don't need
a recorder at all. So piracy, and its commercial impact, have nothing to
do with home recording, or
home recorders.
--
Jim Coon
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