If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

Horse horse at DARKSTAR.UK.NET
Wed Mar 25 13:46:57 EDT 2009


So what do you guys think of spotify?
Lots of 'free' music available.

M Holmes wrote:
> Jonathan Smith writes:
>
>   
>> It is not as simple as stealing or not. Have you never taped a TV show? Is
>> that stealing too?
>>     
>
> There's an interesting debate all in itself. If you record a TV show to
> watch later, it's "timeshift recording" and is quite legal. If you
> forget to delete it after having watched it though, it now becomes
> illegal. If you put it on a DVD and delete it, that's pirating too, even
> if you or anyone else never ever watches the DVD again.
>
> The law almost worked when a recording was defined by a physical object.
> It doesn't any more.
>
> FoFP
>
>
>   

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