Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jani Mets�t�hti:
>
> maybe gun factories should be illegal? should making nuclear bombs be
> illegal? they can _potentially_ be used to harm people... where can you
> draw the line? it's about immaterial copyright concept, with music it's
> more or less impossible to say when exactly copying becomes stealing,
> never mind the software or hardware. isn't it?
yup! that was in the hearings. the senator asked the music
industry suit, "If I buy the CD to play at home then that means
I can also play the same tunes in my car, yeah?", and the music
suit said "Um, well..." and the senator said "It means YES I CAN".
But this kind of thing (buy it once, play it in different formats)
is precisely what all these fuckhead copyright protection schemes
(like SDMI) are trying to prevent.
> napster with friends just
> made it really clear for the first time that the physical
> disc/tape/whatever isn't the issue. (maybe that's what they are suing
> them for!)
parbly. spot on.
> jani
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