Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
But the SOURCE that you download from can still be illegal; that's the point. A copyrighted MP3 file on a bittorrent server is illegal, regardless of whether or not either the poster or the downloader owns the CD that song is from.
|
Perhaps in Britain. But here, no. Prove that the mp3 I had is illegal, while I am waving my 100% legally purchased cd in front of you. How will you prove that I didn't create the mp3 myself?
Actually, I don't use mp3s, only lossless formats, but let's just assume for the case of argument. The traditional rules are changing, whether publishers like it or not. The big gain for the actual producers of content that I see is the potential to pull in vastly more income. If authors play their cards right, I think they can greatly reduce what the middlemen now keep for their own.