the CIRA member record companies in the hot seat for ... copyright infringement

[Madison Kelly]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Peter <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | Matt Price <matt.price at ...> writes:
> | > one more reason to take politics seriously...m
> | 
> | I'm all for gunboat diplomacy on this one.
> 
> Uhh, the gunboats are on the other side.  In particular, the copyright
> distension lobby has the support of the US Government.
> 
> The part of our government that is on "our" side is the court system,
> not the legislature.  As soon as the legislature gets over its ADD
> we'll have some new bad copyright law (twice bad bills have
> died when parliament desolved).
> 
> Oh, and I'm not really happy with copyright infringement.  I want
> reasonable laws that deserve to be obeyed.
> 
> The way file sharing is used now is not reasonable in my ethical
> world-view.

I agree. They tried to come after me because some web crawler found my 
unmarked web directory linked to my music directory that I used to 
listen to my music when I was away from my laptop... No advertising, no 
signup... just a simple, auto-generated directory list.

Anyway, they never found me directly, so I got lucky. Seriously 
though... these idiots will step on anyone for anything. Matt's right, 
we do have to pay attention to politics so that politicians pay 
attention to us.

Madi
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