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Originally posted by leagleaze
Your point is well taken Jack, it is illegal because of the present state of the law. The law could easily be changed. Not everything that is illegal should be so. Case in point just last Friday after all.
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last Friday was doing away with laws that shouldn't be. copyright law is tougher and really hasn't caught up to the internet at all. on the other hand maybe last friday was just catching up with the times.
"skipping commercials" as theft is simply a desperate cry from a tv exec who revenues are drying up. fuck him.*
file sharing is copyright theft- ain't no question. i work in an IP boutique and for awhile we were afraid about being a test defendant for Napster use. Plaintiffs in copyright cases often pick out an IP firm as an example. but it is a type of copyright violation which can't be effectively policed. say each of us infringed a patent each day- plaintiff couldn't come after us- too expensive. its silly to talk of zapping/destroying peoples computers etc. the record industry has to realize that it is inevitable that files will be shared. we used to tape each other's albums- the record industry survived. the people file sharing aren't costing them sales, to the contrary (point made previously- this is already too long). but independant bands you shouldn't cheat- don't burn an Avoid One Thing CD- buy it, okay?
*BofL trivia in early eighties I wrote Dave Letterman a viewer mail letter saying Ivideotaped him each night and watched the next day and fast forwarded throught the commercials and the commercials became subliminal advertising and I was walking around with a Big Mac jones all day. He didn't read it, but it sounds like I was cheating the networks.
