On 12 Nov 2004 11:16:16 -0500 J. David Boyd disseminated the following: > > My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing > > Queen' and the like. Is this safe? > > The more important question would be "is it legal"? If you are speaking of > going to one of the commercial download services, and purchasing copies of > Abba songs, then, yes it is legal, and it will be safe. > > If you are speaking of using a program such as Kazaa (sp?) or Limewire to hook > up to an anonymous peer-to-peer network and get them for free, then it is > illegal, and probably not safe. These programs are often portals to your > system for virii and spyware.
1. It's not illegal in Canada, though it may or may not violate copyright laws, which are civil code, not criminal. Even then, the last time the greedy bastages known as the Recording Industry tried to sue someone here, it was thrown out of court. Apparently the judge felt the Copyright owners were barking up the wrong legal tree. 2. It's a joke. 3. Um, did you perhaps forget what list this is? I have no concerns about 'spyware' or 'virii'. 4. It's a joke. Many thanks for your concern, though! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 12:04:24 up 100 days, 12:56, 6 users, load average: 0.30, 0.40, 0.38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." -- Noam Chomsky
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