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Re: Copyright/Fair use question
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Date: 
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 22:46:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:

My objection to excessive worrying over copyrights has to do with stuff that
is just bloody stupid.  Case in point: I have heard that there are music CDs
that will not play in computer drives. If I ever bought such a disk without
warning that it was thusly limited, I would find a way to defeat the
protection (thanks Philips!) and return the product as unusable.

Note also that such CDs won't play in many "ordinary" CD players either.

ROSCO



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  Re: Copyright/Fair use question
 
More quibbling over the details... (...) I disagree with this view -- you are basically asserting that gatekeepers are not only here to stay but will somehow increase in their cultural value. The reality is that it takes a lot of work to discover to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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