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> Surely that fee should be for anything copyrighted, that the copyright owner
> wishes to charge for. Individual, or greater perception of "quality" is
> subjective anyway - and it's not anyone else's call. You don't have any
> inalienable rights to other peoples' copyrighted material - if you don't
> like the price for it, then don't get it.
Agreed.
>
> > I stand by that position. I don't think that they average person
> downloading stuff is
> > thinking to him/herself, "Hey I'm stealing this stuff and getting way
> with it. Isn't
> > that great?"
>
> Different people have differing opinions of their anecdotal evidence on
> this.
>
> Regardless of the intent, in general, people are still obtaining copyright
> material, against (I would imagine) the terms to which such copyright
> material is bound.
>
> > We have a system in place for recording off of TV and radio.
>
> To a certain degree, copyright still applys. However domestic use is
> considered "time-shifting" - it would almost certainly be a different matter
> should you attempt (and be noticed) to be selling, distributing, or
> otherwise broadcasting such recordings.
Agreed again. But the law does allow you to make cassettes for you own personal
use. Supposedly there is a surcharge added to blank tape to cover copyright
payments. So is the government and recording industry saying, it's OK to copy
things as long as the quality is not so good? Digital is out of the question.
The quality of your copy will be to high?
> > Now we have a new
> > technology and we need a way to incorporate it into the system.
>
> The existence of a new technology, and a general desire by many to
> capitalise, and get something that's not theirs', for free, should not
> overwrite the rights of those that produce copyrighted material.
How does cassette recording from the radio differ from copying it to an MD? The
radio station pays a royalty each time they play a song. On the other hand
adding a surcharge to a blank MD is not fair to the person who is recording
his/her own original material.
Nor is stopping the artist from allowing him/her from making as may digital
copies of his/her own material as they feel like. Yet that is the situation at
present.
> > Regards (and still friends I hope),
>
> Oh of course. Healthy debate is not something I equate to dislike. If
> everybody agreed it'd be a damned boring world (IMHO of course!).
>
Agreed again.
Have a great weekend,
Larry
>
> Neil
>
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