Re: Where's my Bud, Popeye

"Lee Bell" <pleebell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> People have been making copies of music as long as there has been a means
> to do so. When I was quite young, well before many here were born, I had
> a reel to reel tape recorder I used to copy music. Then came cassettes
> and copying music became very common. There was nary a peep from the
> music industry. They clearly didn't care. Finally, after 50 years of
> copying music, MP3s became the media of choice. Now, all of a sudden,
> everybody cares.

They cared, but enforcement was difficult. Most of the caring came
initially from the motion picture industry after Beta and then VHS made
movie pirating a real problem. When DAT came along, music companies started
to get real scared. Fast forward to today, with MP3s and file sharing
utilities, and the record companies (and movie companies) are positively
petrified. Fearful industries worth billions of dollars can be formidable
legal forces. They pay for lots of lawyers and lots of lobbyists and have
managed to mold the laws to their liking.

> Perhaps, Greg, this should be one of your instances of civil disobedience,
> a chance for you to tilt at the windmills of unfair government and
> corporate practices. Few things could be noble than resisting even the
> suggestion that something you had purchased was not, in fact, yours, but
> instead still the property of the entity that sold it to the entity that
> sold it to the entity that sold it to . . . you.

Our entire economy is based on paper that our government allows us to keep.
We don't really own anything. I'm lucky to have what I have.

Find another hero to tilt at windmills on your behalf. I firmly believe in
and support the federal copyright law that I was sworn to uphold, as should
you.

> Software laws are an unfunny joke. What other tool has ever been made
> that may be used only once, in a single location, by a single craftsman?

What other tool has ever been made that can be duplicated, exactly, for
absolutely no money at all? What sort of incentive does the producer of
software, or of music, movies, or art, have to continue producing if there's
no money in it? The end result would be that all our works of art, or
software, would be amateur efforts at best. Occasionally you might have a
group amateur effort like Linux succeed, but that sort of collaborative
effort doesn't work well with painting, music, or literature.


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