downloading music.
i know i should feel like this is illegal for some reason, but i don't. i grew up taping the radio, making mixes from that, copying tapes and CDs and giving them out to people... but best of all, what DLing has enabled me to do is replace all the albums i've purchased that have either gotten lost, been borrowed indefinitely, or are *ahem* broken.
farkers went nuts over this.
and one of them supplied me with this information:
2003-06-26 12:15:03 AM cke-gt
I took this from here: www.boycott-riaa.com. They took it from somewhere else, but it's all good. More interesting stuff there.
"Since 1992, the U.S. Government has collected a tax on all digital audio recorders and blank digital audio media manufactured in or imported into the US, and gives the money directly to the RIAA companies, which is distributed as royalties to recording artists, copyright owners, music publishers, and music writers.
In exchange for those royalties, a special exemption to the copyright law was made for the specific case of audio recordings, and as a result *ALL* noncommercial copying of musical recordings by consumers is now legal in the US, regardless of media.
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."
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2003-06-26 12:24:45 AM nfg05
yea donno if anyone's pointed this out yet, but the Home Recording Act (of 1992, i believe) only applies to analog media so it doesn't have much bearing on file trading.
so, i don't know what to make of all this. i sadly do not have a degree in law or a career in the music business.
i like this idea, though:
2003-06-26 12:01:56 AM Garanimal
I say people stop trading music online and start music appreciation clubs that pool their own libraries, then expand by sharing with other libraries, millions of burned DVD-roms changing hands, no downloading...
/never leave a paper trail...leave no trace...
but there's some cool stuff going on with p2p:
2003-06-26 12:25:52 AM Otterboy
faethe
Check out something like freenet. Encrypted p2p is becoming more popular, along with closed systems like Waste.
2003-06-26 12:34:40 AM faethe
Otterboy
Freenet? I will google that for sure. Encrypted p2p sounds like a decent alternative, as in they don't *know* what you are downloading. However, your isp, justby tracking your activity, obviously knows you are doing *something*. By tracking the addresses of the sites you address, which they surely must store somewhere in a history, no doubt they can figure that you are visiting "x" site. The only way they can get a warrant, I figure, is by proving that you are downloading illegal music. Now how do they do *that* without the p2p's co-operation? because if they can do that, then anything you do is pointless...
2003-06-26 12:40:31 AM wombatronic
faethe :
The point of Freenet is that the content is encrypted and placed on other hosts. Hosts don't actually know what they have, and (if done right) you get the content indirectly, so you don't really know who had it anyhow.
The whole idea is to have the content available, but protect the anonymity of the requester and provider. I don't know how serious the anonymity is, but there are CS PhDs working on these sort of problems. It will happen, and the RIAA won't be able to do much about it. Math rules that way.
conclusion? the RIAA is basically pissing off a lot of people, specifically the people who give the companies they represent a *lot* of money. methinks this is a bad idea. i have to agree with the Farker that said that they're going to get laughed out of court when they show up suing (he said 50,000, but i'm an optimist) close to a million people. i happily spend money on music. but the RIAA needs to grow up. dude, they tried to illegalize the re-selling of CDs. do you know what that would do to the prices we already find to be exorbitant?
anyhow, this monkey needs to get some sleep before two little monkeys come to wake her up bright and early tomorrow. : ) babysitting for my niece and nephew - rockin'!
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