Comments on: ‘Don’t sue downloaders’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1791 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:59:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1791/comment-page-1#comment-3129 Reader's Write Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:11:39 +0000 #comment-3129 i know someone who downloads illegally called Jamie Wilson ( lives in england cantly,doncaster) and i think that he should be arrested. ( please arrest) i know someone who downloads illegally called Jamie Wilson ( lives in england cantly,doncaster) and i think that he should be arrested.
( please arrest)

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1791/comment-page-1#comment-3002 Reader's Write Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:40:13 +0000 #comment-3002 oh please.... think about it for a minute. Verbatim copy? I'm sorry, but this is LOSSY COMPRESSION (MP3/AAC, etc). How the hell can a degraded copy be considered "VERBATIM" You cannot seriously tell me the VHS copy you have of the most recent popular movie, say... Spider Man, is AS GOOD or EXACTLY the same as the 35MM Reel they have in the movie house?!?!? Only an idiot, or a RICH LAWYER would make the comparison. When will someone get wise and support a downloader, (ie, a rich enthusiast?) and simply get a music expert in there and show 1) Waveforms, 2) EQ readouts, 3) Spectral Analysis and 4) "Sound test". Finally, it is physically impossible to call these "VERBATIM COPIES" unless they are COPIED FROM A CD TO ANOTHER CD via waveform. Your MP3 collection has about as much to do with a VERBATIM COPY of the latest top 10 hit as does my personal singing of the Rolling Stones "Emotional Rescue". While the verbiage may be the same, the quality JUST AIN'T THERE. Ya know what? Just buy a radio card for your computer, and then rip the stream right off the tuner. Then you'll have your "verbatim copies" and nobody will be the wiser. Imagine how good that will be when digital radio comes along? :-) I can just see it, like when I was in school. Pop in a tape, put on your favourite station, and come home home and enjoy. Only now, editing out the commercials won't be such a chore! Thank god Canada still hasn't fallen prey to this. I fear it will one day, but so far, the Supreme court has shot down two major challenges, including a new attempt at taxation (which we already pay for the right to copy by taxing CD's, and they wanted the ISP TOO? the bastards!!!!). oh please…. think about it for a minute.

Verbatim copy? I’m sorry, but this is LOSSY COMPRESSION (MP3/AAC, etc). How the hell can a degraded copy be considered “VERBATIM”

You cannot seriously tell me the VHS copy you have of the most recent popular movie, say… Spider Man, is AS GOOD or EXACTLY the same as the 35MM Reel they have in the movie house?!?!?

Only an idiot, or a RICH LAWYER would make the comparison. When will someone get wise and support a downloader, (ie, a rich enthusiast?) and simply get a music expert in there and show 1) Waveforms, 2) EQ readouts, 3) Spectral Analysis and 4) “Sound test”.

Finally, it is physically impossible to call these “VERBATIM COPIES” unless they are COPIED FROM A CD TO ANOTHER CD via waveform.

Your MP3 collection has about as much to do with a VERBATIM COPY of the latest top 10 hit as does my personal singing of the Rolling Stones “Emotional Rescue”. While the verbiage may be the same, the quality JUST AIN’T THERE.

Ya know what? Just buy a radio card for your computer, and then rip the stream right off the tuner. Then you’ll have your “verbatim copies” and nobody will be the wiser. Imagine how good that will be when digital radio comes along? :-) I can just see it, like when I was in school. Pop in a tape, put on your favourite station, and come home home and enjoy. Only now, editing out the commercials won’t be such a chore!

Thank god Canada still hasn’t fallen prey to this. I fear it will one day, but so far, the Supreme court has shot down two major challenges, including a new attempt at taxation (which we already pay for the right to copy by taxing CD’s, and they wanted the ISP TOO? the bastards!!!!).

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1791/comment-page-1#comment-2970 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:02:29 +0000 #comment-2970 This is what I call a semantec rationalization because even though you can copy stuff using a VCR, there are many legitimate uses for doing so without going out an renting movies (copyrighted) and making copies of them. You can make copies of your home movie collection for instance. This would be a ligitimate use of the VCR techology. Or, you could record programs that don't have duplication restrictions. This is what I call a semantec rationalization because even though you can copy stuff using a VCR, there are many legitimate uses for doing so without going out an renting movies (copyrighted) and making copies of them. You can make copies of your home movie collection for instance. This would be a ligitimate use of the VCR techology. Or, you could record programs that don’t have duplication restrictions.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1791/comment-page-1#comment-2966 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:38:04 +0000 #comment-2966 Q.E.D. Q.E.D.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1791/comment-page-1#comment-2965 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:13:00 +0000 #comment-2965 Rick you hit the Nail on the head!!!!!!! Rick you hit the Nail on the head!!!!!!!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1791/comment-page-1#comment-2962 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:12:37 +0000 #comment-2962 I agree with the PURPOSE of the copyright laws, but what those laws have become is no longer in line with the origional intent. If copying a file verbatim is clearly illegal then the courts should never have allowed fair use with VCR's and Cassettes. I agree with the PURPOSE of the copyright laws, but what those laws have become is no longer in line with the origional intent. If copying a file verbatim is clearly illegal then the courts should never have allowed fair use with VCR’s and Cassettes.

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