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| | | (...) But if you have not BOUGHT the music yet, do you even have a right to duplicate for personal use? I'd check the warranty on the places you are getting these. If they are non-copyrighted, you're fine. Otherwise, I would guess that you do not (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: 6 months! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) No, of course you don't. (...) Nah, you really do have the right to make copies for your personal use. Furthermore, if they try to deny it, there's all sorts of shady issues. Like, do you have the right to copy digital music to a ram buffer (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | (...) (said like the Great Gildersleeve...) Oooo! Isn't that sneaky... From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) what you can, but behave yourself. We'll have more, right after this. (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) :) Well, it's not sneaky really, it just points out that legal wording usually has no clue about the way technology works. Like the son of CDA law that prohibits Bad Things from being distributed to Innocent Little Children via "the World Wide (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | Weren't Newsgroups and mailing lists on of the main focuses? Does that mean the law missed those? Now That's Comedy! Jeff (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: 6 months! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Depends. If you purchase/pay a fee to a site or store which is licensed to dispense music 'by the song', then there's no issue. If I go to a website which licenses music from artists specifically for downloading, I believe you get to store it (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Lee Jorgensen
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| | | | | Why be worried? We don't have door-to-door Compu-Cops ... (1) Regardless ... I've made my whole collection of CD's into MP3's ... Though normally only the 'decent' songs that I actually listen to and like. Now all I have to get is the Panasonic (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Hrmmm. I'm in the market for a 50+" TV right now. Does that mean I could justify taking a half dozen out of the store at night to "evaluate" as long as I return the ones I don't like then pay for the one I keep? (...) I wouldn't bother with it (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Well, there's a key difference with software, that makes all such analogies silly: you can make an infinite number of copies at no cost. It's more like: you have a Star Trek replicator at home, and you take from the store the (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, I know the typical rationalization. The reality, though, is that someone who pirates software (or music) is taking something they don't own without the owner's permission. If I could steal 50" tv's from Circuit City down the street from (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Sure, but you at least admit that they're different. I think it makes sense to examine how laws _should_ apply to intellectual property in the digital age, rather than just blindly extending physical property laws via a somewhat stretched (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Me too, but I just installed BeOS Release 4 and it is way too cool to not lose sleep over. :) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) ooh, now that's back to fun. I'm still waiting for BeOS to have all the right support needed to run on my Libretto.... I've seen release 3 -- how different is 4? (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Well, I don't have much to compare it with. I had 3.2 on a Mac here in the office until today, but only for a week or so. I know they must have improved video support for this 8600, though, because now I can run at 1024x768x8x75 whereas before (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: 6 months! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Or more exactly, allowed by the copyright holder -- Public Enemy was distributing their own songs on their web site, and were made to stop. (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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