Mp3 vs illegal, need help here!
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- Nypan84
I need some site with good information on this, I am writing an essay about it and I need information quick! Thanks in advance!
- ********0
when i was in school there was no internet! we had to go to the library and look at moldy books! and microfishe! and we liked it!
- toe-knee0
I'll do your essay if you go to work for me tommorow
- rabattski0
what do you exactly mean with mp3 vs illegal? mp3's aren't illegal, it's illegal to distribute pirated material which could include material in mp3 format.
- toe-knee0
just do a search for kazaa vs the riaa
its all there
- rabattski0
oh and as far as i know you can legally make mp3's out of legal audio cd's you have for personal use only.
- toe-knee0
This is a great read
http://news.com.com/2010-1027_3-…
News.com has published an interesting e-mail debate between Ian Clarke, the inventor of Freenet, and Matt Oppenheim, the senior vice president of business and legal affairs at RIAA.
- rabattski0
i still don't get it why they target P2P software developers. it's just software which can be abused by the user. the user is responsible for what he does with that piece of software not the developer. you might as well sue google, e-mail / ftp applications developers since they enable users to abuse it as well.
now you can say that certain institutions should have access to user identities, just in the same vein that internet providers need to be able to sniff ip traffic for security reasons but if you look at that from a bird's eye perspective you might as well grant them access to everything, snail mail, parcel delivery etc. fortunately that doesn't happen due to privacy rights. then again they seem to have a double standard in privacy rights when communication and data transfer happens online.
it's just odd. somehow in the vein of protecting copyrights it's a bit turning into a police state.
- toe-knee0
amen
- welded0
It's very simple why they target the software authors - cut the head off and the body dies, or so the theory is. I happen to agree with you that it's not so much the software but the users, however the industry's argument has always been that those who write P2P programs are fully aware of what goes on and therefore are party to it. Remember Napster 1.0?
Another analogy would be to litigate the auto manufacturers because all of their cars have the potential to go well over the speed limit, and they know this when designing and building them and could be able to build in countermeasures. It might not be a very strong analogy, but the point is that, yes, they're being assumed guilty and have to fight to prove otherwise. This, unfortunately, sucks because the RIAA (and MPAA) have so much money and political clout... At least in Canada it's been ruled legal to run P2P software as it's akin to having a photocopier in a library and in Australia a judge ruled that Sharmen Networks (Kazza's owners) aren't necessarily liable..
As far as privacy is concerned, there have also been recent rulings that the RIAA can't just demand personal info from ISPs. This is how they used to do it; just drop a bucketload of John Doe subpoenas on an ISP's doorstop and they'd HAVE to comply. Verizon was able to curtail this somewhat and, somehow, there have been other recent decisions futher helping to save privacy rights.
It's a brave new world. :|