From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 4 7: 6:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AFD37B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f24F61r28889; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:06:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:06:00 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again In-Reply-To: <20010304144016.B32152@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: <20010304094841.U25558-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I meant, for redistribution. I had the impression that "private use" > meant for your own use, ie, taping your CDs to use on your walkman and > that sort of thing, and it's illegal to borrow a CD from someone else > and tape it, or tape your CDs for others, etc. If that's legal, I > don't see why napster could possibly be illegal. But IANAL... The Web page I mentioned says that only certain media are covered by the AHRA, and gives the ones I named as examples. > If any form of free non-profit copying is allowed, then I don't see > why the fact that they allowed circulation of concert tapes is > special. The law says "noncommercial use" but the RIAA's Web page says "private use". Most likely, one of them is inaccurate. :) > I think many bands explicitly prohibit taping at concerts, by whatever > means. I think you're right. -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message