On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 20:59:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In my humble opinion (and this is not legal advice), with a few
> dramatic and severe exceptions (for example, child pornography) if you
> are an American citizen, you can record just about any damn thing you
> want in your home, at least once.
What gives you this specific "right"?
> You don't need the AHRA to do this.
> Copyright law won't hold you back.
Really?
What, legally, prevents you from watching, recording, or whatever else,
encrypted, copyright, cable or satellite broadcasts, without paying the
appropriate subscription or fee, or is this simply allowed?
> Copyright law wilts in the face of
> your most fundamental Constitutional freedoms.
'scuse me, but where does your constitution *specifically* overrule
copyright?
> We want every citizen
> to have access to what is going on in this culture, to freely
> associate with one another, to share ideas, to be able to act with
> autonomy and privacy.
Surely this is just interpretation and speculation. I would suggest none of
this is written in stone, to allow individuals to ignore copyright as and
when they see fit, whilst singing the star-spangled banner, waving a flag...
AIUI you are using generalisms to validate specifics.
> That's the way it is and the way it's always
> been. Our freedom is more important than worrying about if a few poor
> souls didn't get their theoretical, speculative $1.50.
Whether they did, or didn't, isn't your call.
People who bought copyright material are bound by the conditions under which
they bought it. If they didn't want to be thus bound, they didn't have to
buy it - they *chose*.
> Why do you think they had to make a law called the American Home
> Recording Act in the first place? Because the copyright laws, if not
> interpreted in full view of the Constitution, left open the
> possibility of serious violations of your Constitutional rights. Look
> at the name, it says it all, in America, you are free to make home
> recordings. Period. You are, you were, you will be. It's THE
> AMERICAN HOME RECORDING ACT, PEOPLE.
Which presumably doesn't outlaw the abliilty to make home recordings, and
purchase home recording equipment. But nowhere have I seen anything that
specifically revokes copyright restrictions.
Feel free to specifically point out where copyright restrictions on
prerecorded media are now unconstitutional, illegal and now irrelevant.
Neil
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