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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: The American Recording Industry, RIP |
| Date | Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:10:11 -0500 |
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This story came up today on the radio show I wake up to every morning,
NPR's The Bryant Park Project. Their correspondent pointed out that a
lot of the news articles about this lawsuit got an important detail
wrong: the brief doesn't charge the guy with taking his own CDs and
putting them into his own computer, but with putting them into a
public folder on his computer, which could be accessed by others. So
the issue is still unauthorized distribution, just on a much smaller
scale than one of the P2P networks.
I'm not saying that the RIAA isn't batshit crazy, just that they're
not quite crazy enough to try to sue someone for putting tracks from
his CDs into a private, unshared folder on his computer. In which
case they'd have to sue every single person who has ever bought an
iPod.
S
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