Copyright Laws

[DAB]

How do feel about copying songs and movies off the internet?There's technology being developed to stop it and legislation being pushed to use the technology. I think its stealing. Its on www.americanfreedomnews.com

Darren

 

[bmoeller]

Sounds like a slippery slope to me. If they come up with the technology to do that, what else will they try to use it for? Try to eliminate the "Other" section on the TDR perhaps for people who aren't politically correct or are part of the "Right-wing Conspiracy" as Hillary would put it? Anyones guess.

 

[illflem]

I'm all for musicians getting paid for their work but think Sen. Orrin Hatch's legislation that allows technology to be installed that would destroy your computer if you try to download music is way to rash and more than likely unconstitutional.

More here

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/18/tech/main559190.shtml



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6559-2003Jun17.html

 

[Champane Flight]

Another idea Hatched

I think it is stealing, I also think it is the record companys that will have to deal with this, not uncle Sam. I do not copy off Internet, nor ever will. I have burn't a copy or two of my own stuff for freinds and relatives though. Just as guilty I guess.



It will be a rough road trying to stop this. Anti-copy measures on DVDs work to a point, maybe the same technology?

 

[mikel]

Digital Rights Management (long)

Currently I think it's about recording company greed. The recording industry wants total control over what is done with any music/video you buy. The last I read about it (haven't gone to the links posted higher up in the thread yet) the whole Digital Rights Management concept is going to be very intrusive and will have a private entity playing "big brother" with what you can and cannot do with your computer and your audio/video discs.



For this to really work hardware manufacturers will have to get on board and include circuitry to facilitate it, which to me is clearly not good. It's the same kind of crap that movie studios are doing with DVD's right now. Ever notice how you can't skip over the FBI warning on a DVD? Ok, maybe not being able to skip it is mandated by law, but I doubt it. How about the "MGM" logo that you can't skip? That's not mandated by law, it's an annoying example of the recording industry playing big brother and telling you what you are going to with *your* dvd player while watching *your* dvd in *your* house. Lovely...



My feeling on this is that if the Recording Industry would actually give the consumer what they want then this problem would go away. Two things to start with are price CD's at a reasonable level, and set up a site where a person can go and for a few dollars download ANY song off ANY CD that they might want in 100% non compressed quality without having to buy a CD that has 9 or 10 crap songs to get 1 or if you're lucky 2 good ones. The song file could be encrypted with a "digital fingerprint" that is linked to that user, so if it ends up in the wild on Kazaa or whatever the original purchaser can be prosecuted if necessary. Other than that the file should be free of anything that would hinder it's use.



Anywhere.



It should *NOT* be illegal or discouraged for me to pick just my favorite tracks off of CD's that I own and make a custom CD that I can use in my car or wherever. It should not be illegal or discouraged for me to make a CD of tracks that I have bought online to use in my car, my house, and my computer.



It *should* be illegal and prosecuted for me to put music on file sharing services like Kazaa, and with a digital fingerprint linked to my original purchase it won't be hard to figure out who put the file out there.



Destroying computers if you try to download music? I gotta go read that article...



Peace,

Mike