Originally posted by Zone-MR@May 16 2003, 12:44 PM
@ Cyberion.
No, it doesnt mean its legal to 'pirate' music. It means that making a personal non-commercial copy of a recording weather you own it or not is not classes as piracy, due to the law which taxes blank media.
The only time you are entering a grey area is if you are running a P2P service with advertising or whatever as you lose the argument that its non-commercial.
Of course the RIAA wont like it, and it doesnt make a difference if its legal or not as if you have a company like the RIAA bullying you, then your rights immediatly do not apply as you arent a financial match. Sick system, but nothing we can do about it.
As to colleges, its not bad news, its BRILLIANT news. It means they won't have legal risks if their students trade music. Bandwidth problems are a different matter alltogether. They can impost restirctions, make policies that prohibit file swapping, and decide for themselves what to allow. It only means they wont have LEGAL hassles to worry about in addition to techincal problems.
ok ..
so if its put in taxes...and they don't (or can't) stop 'piracy' ...
you know they'll just raise the taxes and prices of media to collect.
Hurting people that don't use CD-Rs for audio, but for only data/multimedia backups etc.
Its not as good as you make it sound.
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