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Originally Posted by kennyc
I don't think so. That's certainly not what the law says.
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When it comes to digital media the various concerned industries have attempted to practice an aggressive "Guilty, and you shall hang by the neck until you are dead, Dead, DEAD!" kind of attitude (as seen by 7 year old little girls and 65 year old grandmothers being dragged into court by the RIAA for downloading one or two songs).
Something does need to be done to address the extreme aggressiveness, but one can only pity the industries. The digital genie is out of the bottle. Anything transmitted digitally can be copied and distributed relatively quickly, cheaply, and easily, with zero degradation.
Effectively the march of technology has screwed their stranglehold, the only thing they can do is attempt to make it a crime with such dire consequences that no one dare copy anything for fear of losing one's ability to reproduce, or try and make it a "moral crime".
I like Al Yankovich's song that satires the situation, "Don't Download this Song":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY