From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 4 5:40:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1E437B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 05:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f24DeGu84177 ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:40:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id OAA36570 ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:40:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:40:16 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Trevor Johnson Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <20010304144016.B32152@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Trevor Johnson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010304130501.A32152@lpt.ens.fr> <20010304082413.E25558-100000@blues.jpj.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010304082413.E25558-100000@blues.jpj.net>; from trevor@jpj.net on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:28:01AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Trevor Johnson said on Mar 4, 2001 at 08:28:01: > > They do not permit free copying of their released albums, even on a > > non-profit basis. > > >From my reading of http://www.riaa.com/Copyright-Laws-4.cfm and a glance > at the actual law, in the United States this is legal to do with cassette > tapes, minidisks, or DATs. 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... 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. It's true, though, that they allowed fans to plug their tape decks directly into the soundboards, which most other bands didn't allow. I think many bands explicitly prohibit taping at concerts, by whatever means. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message