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James A. Donald:
> > my experience with downloading TV shows suggests that
> > piracy is working better than ever.
Major Variola
> This wasn't piracy, it was time-shifting.
When the ads were deleted, it ceased to be time shifting.
In any case, the point I intended to make was that "Buffy"
At 11:21 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On 24 Oct 2002 at 20:32, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> Napster clones, kazaa, gnutella et al. rely on end-users to
> upload stuff. These end users simply have no bandwidth
> available for that. Cheapo DSL lines have hundred
t 11:21 PM 10/24/02 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
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>I am a really big fan of "Buffy".
Seek professional help.
but my experience with downloading TV shows suggests
>that piracy is working better than ever.
This wasn't piracy, it was time-shifting. You, as an
American with a TV, could watch the
At 02:37 AM 10/25/02 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
>Seems to me this would pass current IP laws because it is like a radio
>station which broadcast the name of a song and the user is expected to
>insert the CD in his player and play along to keep up with the
>commentary, only automated and with open APIs
At 08:32 PM 10/24/02 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
>Napster clones, kazaa, gnutella et al. rely on end-users to upload
stuff. These
>end users simply have no bandwidth available for that. Cheapo DSL lines
have
>hundred or few hundreds of kbit/sec unguaranteed upload capacity. No
one is
>going to pay
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:37:32AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
| Seems to me this would pass current IP laws because it is like a radio
| station which broadcast the name of a song and the user is expected to
| insert the CD in his player and play along to keep up with the
| commentary, only automated
Re. the recent rapacious "broadcast" royalties imposed on internet
radio in the US, it occurs to me it wouldn't be that hard to do the
following and it would probably avoid the royalties even under the
current imbalanced IP laws:
- have the station broadcast it's own content (commentary)
- have th