* Charles Redell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 18 Jan 2001
| Uhhh, making mixes for yourself or your friends and associates is not
| really a dubious idea... It's been done for years and years on all sorts
| of mediums,
People have been abusing cocaine and all sorts of drugs for years, too.
Just because "everyone" does it, for some exclusive of "everyone", does not
make it legal.
| and even the commercials for CD burners and MP3 players (and MD recorder
| if there were such commercials in the US) promote this type of
| use....
No, they promote it for your own *personal* use. Look up the meaning of
"personal" yourself or ask a copyright lawyer.
| Recording the album and sending it to a list of people is illegal. but a
| mix tree.... In the age of Napster and MP3.com I doubt the record
| conglomerates could care less about that.
Whether or not they care does not change the fact that "trading" is just
theft with a pretty name. Doesn't matter what you call it, anime fansubs,
software "backups", music "trades", it all ammounts to the same thing. If
you are going to violate the law, if you are going to engage in copyright
violation, at least have the decency to admit it to yourself that is what
you are doing. I suppose anything else is negotiable.
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