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From: ronald@forte-intl.com
Ookie Wonderslug writes:
> But it is not stealing. Stealing is when you deprive someone of their
> property without their permission. If I take a picture of the "Mona
> Lisa" I have not stolen it. If it was in a Xerox machine and I pressed
> the "copy" button and did not touch the original I have not stolen it.
> I have a copy. A poor one at that.
Exactly true. And those high-paid jizz-buckets in suits know it.
They call it the "analog hole". Their arguments in court went like
this: if resolution is lost, then it's not an exact copy and therefore
legal. The jizz-men want to add a "broadcast flag" to HDTV so that if
you want to make a copy of a broadcast, then the hardware will "down
convert" the video signal to a lower resolution. Well, someone ought
to tell the warm buckets of dog-piss at the RIAA that that is
*exactly* what mp3 does: lossy compression *is* a loss of resolution.
> They will be out of business because of it. Don't sit around and whine
> about not making money and blaming it on Kazaa. If you rock, let the
> word out. Play a few gigs.
Or take a lesson from the movie industry: let the radio stations
become "pay per listen", find a really good new song you like, and
then wait for six months for the labels to sell you a region-coded CD.
*That's* how you rake in the profits!!!
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