| Clause in Digital Millenium Copyright Act Isn't there a clause in the DMCA that says one may keep a copy of a file on one's hard drive for 24 hours to "test" it out? In addition, does it not allow you to "transfer" songs from one person to another? In other words, TECHNICALLY, can I not copy a song from a CD I own to mp3, trade that song with someone, and then delete and destroy all copies of the song I have? Albeit, this is all a hypothetical situation, and no one in there right mind trades songs only to destroy the copies they have. Now, when they track downloads, can they track how long a song has existed on one's harddrive? And also, in the event that one shares more than one copy of a song, can they prove that one didn't own duplicate copies of that song, and then destroy those copies? (I know this all sounds very circumlocuted, but you get my point) |
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| I hope the try to repeal the DMCA. Is there any political folks that support this? If so we should see what we can do to help get others on board.
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| k.. heres my 2 cents.
heavy users probably classifiys over 1/2 their clintell. if they all went to jail verison would be puckin mad. so i doubt it seriusly.
also by streamin mp3's it's racks up your mb/month, so how would they know if ur dling or streaming?
i doubt this will acomplis much for the Riaa |
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| If some one created a worm that made all of your media files accessible via P2P networks like Kazaa and Gnutella. I would voluntarily disable my virus protection and look to be infected. Just think if millions of computers were infected and all of their media files were made available to these networks? |
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| Scary is all I can say.....I am not sure Verizon will turn it over and what would really happen if they didn't? Sure they can hold Verizon in contempt, but in all honesty, there is nothing more than that they could do. This could get really heated and really fast. I hope Verizon sticks to it's guns, cause the outcome is a damn serious one. This gives the RIAA so much power that they would be unstoppable. It is only a matter of time though til someone comes up with some kind of IP Blocker for these services. For every action there is a reaction. If a blocker was made, no one would have 2 worry.
Our privacy is at serious stake here, and this just does mean p2p either...imagine the trickling down effects on this. On a note...Verizon does have some pretty big support behind it with Yahoo! and a a list of others supporting it.
To Verizon---don't do it. Refuse! Be held in comtempt! What can they possibly do to you? You are one of the largest telecos in America! I don't think they would shut Verizon down, there would be riots all over the country if that happened. |
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