Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:15:29 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? Message-ID: <20011010191529.C83192@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010110117.04268f00@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:07:38AM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010104701.04264050@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110100931360.45215-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011010101446.053c3560@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110100931360.45215-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <20011010184600.A82552@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011010104701.04264050@localhost> <20011010185224.A83192@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011010110117.04268f00@localhost>
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Brett Glass said on Oct 10, 2001 at 11:07:38: > > Not true at all. The RIAA and MPAA are out to stop ALL copying, by > any means, if they can. Actually, I know all that, I've frequently ranted about it myself, and I don't know why I wrote what I did. I just clarified it in another mail. > The Internet is only one of a large, large number of leaks in > the dike which they would like to plug. It's by far the largest and I still maintain it's what they're most worried about. I'm willing to admit they have reason about that. I don't admit that they're actually being hurt by it, however: if people can't download tracks by random unknown musicians from napster, they're not going to rush out and buy the CDs instead. They'll do that only if they like what they heard. Even if 5% of the new music they hear that way results in CD purchases, it's definitely a gain for the music industry, but they won't see it that way... Question about these taxes on things like CD writers, which are supposed to "compensate" for copyright violation: does that mean, having paid that tax, I'm now entitled to copy copyrighted material using it? If not, what the heck am I paying that tax for? R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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