On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Lawnun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> _Everytime_ a video is taken down, God kills a kitten?  Hyperbole aside,

It was meant to be - it's a meme.

> targeted are not capturing 'discrete slices and slivers'--as you
> suggest--but entire episodes of a given work.

I would tend to agree for pragmatic reasons. But in this instance,
it's more these slices I'm talking about and in some ways they are as
valuable as entire works.

> Making a copy of a work in full isn't anymore enriching to the world than is
> stealing a book from a store. That hasn't, and isn't likely to change, no
> matter how revolutionary the new technology is.

Again, this is open to discussion. How one is a physical good and one
is virtual and a copy does not destroy the original yada yada yada.


> whether it's outserved its purpose (it hasn't), but to what end it can be
> amended and adapted to meet the changing needs of the times.

A good question does arise. Has it been perverted to serve a purpose
it was not intended to originally serve?



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