Comments on: Music cartel nails KU girl

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:27:44 +0000

Jass,

Do Not keep bothering my web page,.. I am home sick for somebody else,.. You probally was a set up like Slim SAID A LONG TIME AGO,… AND I FEEL SO GOOD NOW THAT I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE SAID THAT I AM NOT THE ONE FOR YOU,… PLEASE BE SWEET,.. GOOD BYE
GOLDEN

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:07:52 +0000

” O ” but even better if we stick to our guns and win this fight!!!!!! HOW???????? Don’t BUY CD’s from the major labels. Don’t share music from the major labels. Let them have their CD’s rot on the shelfs!!!! Then see how valueable it is!!!!!!!!! Support only Indie artists and there are alot of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets put an END to the major labels crap once and for all!!!! It all starts with YOU !!! One person at a time!!!! Let others know why you will not buy !!!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:59:14 +0000

I wonder if the law makes a distinction between sharing a single large archive containing many songs – let’s say a multi-CD “Hits of the ’60’s” collection – and the same songs shared individually? Would the archive count as one infringement or a hundred?

Speaking of collections – a collection of public domain songs can still be copyrighted (but only an album with that particular selection of songs) but what if you collected these songs separately, and then, out of pure coincidence, archived them in the same combination and order as the copyrighted collection? Would you then be breaking the law?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:54:53 +0000

so what IS 4,000 as a percentage of 61 million or 1.25 billion?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:42:49 +0000

Yeah, but as most any parent knows, simply telling kids NOT to do something alluring is going to be taken as an open dare. Just like teaching them safe-sex, children need to be taught safe-P2P.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:30:17 +0000

Valuable? Right. Regarding record companies, that would explain why Wilco’s company (article is in many places) declined to release one of their albums on the grounds that the company felt it had no commercial potential (value?), and just shelved it.

Please, people (companies in particular), define a song/track/music file (uh oh). These things on their computers are bits and bytes and 0s and 1s. And please, back up that awkward statement that downloading = stealing (definition alone). Or that downloading = shoplifting (’common’ business sense). English is such a funny language. No wonder it’s considered one of the hardest languages to learn.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:49:54 +0000

Shame on you! Don’t you mean that the dads and moms should be telling there kids NOT to share? heheheh.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:46:33 +0000

You would think that, if anyone, the daughter of a lawyer would be aware of the potential legal liability of P2P.

And they say parents just don’t talk enough with their children. When their children reach a certain age, every parent needs to sit down with their kids and have a long talk about the Facts of Life (Forget about the ‘birds and the bees’ – they probably already know more than you) and explain … the reality of P2P file sharing … and the importance of hiding your shared files.

Even public schools should touch on this subject. This should be taught in the 6th grade at least – how to use P2P and not get caught. Sure, the same arguments against sex education will be flung around – that even talking about it just promotes it. But same as with file sharing – they’re already doing it anyway, and unprotected as well.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:13:03 +0000

Quote the snake: “We will continue to pursue all avenues in our power to fight those who illicitly profit from our members’ valuable property,” the MPAA’s Jack Valenti states.

“Profitting?” The only profits i see here are going to be what that poor girl has to pay them for snooping into her computer.