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Originally Posted by Pismire
Out of curiosity: say I am on a train, happily reading my book. Someone next to me glances over and reads part of it. Am I committing a crime here, by not successfully protecting the book, therefor making its content available to others? Is he committing a crime by trying to read my book without having payed for it?
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Just don't read it out aloud... public performance rights and all that
Although not quite as daft as everyone been able to listen to the same radio station on their own "private" radio at work (including customers) without paying anything, but if you get rid of the hundreds of duplicate radios/headphones and use one, you're violating performance laws and have to pay £100's for a license... Makes perfect sense.
Especially when you consider that radio stations are either already paid for via the tv license fee or are ad supported, in which case the more ears it reaches, the better.
But I digress.