Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 1:29 PM I don't want to get into a discussion about it either, I'm just saying I believe that in the eys of the law there are no laws being broken when you record something and put it on the Internet for your own backup purposes. If people find the link and download it, that is then there problem. It's kind of like how the RIAA sits on Kazaa all day and catches people sharing and downloading Britney Spears, Metallica, etc. They can't go after Kazaa because they can say something as simple as, say, they're just putting up a network to share text files but people end up sharing MP3s. It all goes back to the big VCR lawsuit. The judge ruled that the VCR is for personal use and users can't be sued for using their VCR. However people using their VCR for malicious or bootlegging intent will be punished by law. I agree with you on morality and whatnot, but I'm just saying even as fans I don't think anyone's doing anything wrong even legally when they put the show up. However this person on eBay is violating federal/Westwood One copyright laws, eBay regulations and laws, and last he is hurting us as fans because frankly he's probably just on the DC hub downloading away and selling shows here and there for quick, easy, free money. Unacceptable. And last, I'd like to say although every word I typed is true, I did see something on Fox News Channel a few weeks ago about a bill in congress thats trying to go after the networks that people use for their malicious practices. Now of course this was FNC, but they said theoretically if you send an email over Yahoo to someone about something illegal, the feds can sue the sender, Yahoo, and the person being emailed! So, essentially they would be able to sue SV, Dolland, and anyone using this forum for even talking about trading MP3s. One major example they used as how crazy it would be, they said if you have a 40gb iPod filled with MP3s, they could sue the iPod owner for over a billion dollars because they'd sue him for every song on there. Because its not on the CD the label released. There was a lot of people yelling about it, and I haven't really looked into it but Shepard Smith seemed pretty scared that he could get sued for his iPod. So maybe we shoudl keep an eye out for this.. —dr ipod |
