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I routinely take and photocopy articles in the library. I did not pay for the magazine, but violate no laws by copying these for a friend. Since I do not resell them, the copying is legal.
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And it is my understanding of the Fair Use provisions that this is legal, although it is skirting the edge of legal<G>!
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That was Napster's philosophy - albeit violated by many of its users.
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well... there are an awful lot of folks, some who worked on the "inside" that believe that Napster's philosophy was to make a large killing in the venture market on the backs of others!
And it really doesn't matter if their original philosophy was completely legal and ethical... they morphed rather quickly into something quite the opposite, and made no effort to change that unless challenged, and defeated, in the courts.
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However for reasons that confuse me, that is illegal only because the industry is hurt. Of course the industry is hurt.
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NO!!!! It is not illegal only because the industry is hurt... it is illegal because it is theft!
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They absolutely - every last one of them - would not and could not look at the Internet.
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Sorry, but this is a myth... the entire industry has been looking at many different distribution media for years. That they can not find a way to harness the internet that benefits consumer, artist, and industry is hardly their fault... it is not a trivial problem.\
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It makes more sense to first address the source of the problem - not its symptom. Napster is a symptom of an industry that outrightly ignored the Internet and simply ignored what future copyright laws should be. Instead of addressing the problem, they killed things such as DAT. Rather than addressing the problem, the problem only comes back with more vengence.
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Perhaps the problem is that many people feel that they deserve to get everything they want for free, and have absolutely no respect for the property of others, real or intellectual.
In this case it makes great sense to treat both the problem and the symptoms.
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I have no sympathy for an industry that has slowly become its own worst enemy, then pays politicans big bucks to attack the symptoms of their myopia.
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By stealing music you are only "hurting" the "myopic" industry a little... they'll always win in the end because they are large and powerful and they have lots of powerful friends.
The people who really get hurt are the artists who are not compensated for their efforts when that it is their choice to do so.
Just out of curiosity, should it be "right" to steal software just because a the software industry, on the whole, puts out mediocre, half finished products and provides minimal support?