Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 to protect copyright

[Kevin McNamara]

The real reason the RIAA wanted napster stopped was because it threatend
there control of distribution.ie bands could just bypass them.

(little known by most people is that cd
sales soared during napsters heyday)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney K" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 6:08 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 to protect
copyright


> If you really think about it, the consumers are the ones that make the
music
> industry rich, and in a sense, it's like they are trying to chase us away.
In
> the retail industry, if a store pisses a customer off, the customer shops
> somewhere else, I wonder if this would be possible in this scenario? Well
if
> a alternative were to surface.
>
>
> On Monday 08 October 2001 05:46 pm, you wrote:
> > Warren
> >
> > There is a thing called fair use it is encoded into copyright law-but it
is
> > just that a right granted by congress not by the constitution.
> >
> > What the music industry is doing is trying to get that right revoked.
> >
> > The MPAA & Disney have never accepted the fair use doctrine set by the
> > supreme court
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
> > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
> > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:40 PM
> > Subject: [luau] Re: Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 to protect
> > copyright
> >
> > > They also assume that we are doing something illegal when we copy.
There
> >
> > is
> >
> > > a thing called "Fair Use", where it is perfectly legal for us to make
> >
> > copies
> >
> > > of music and software CD's that we buy for personal backups.  I don't
> > > want to have my good and over priced expensive CD's in my car to be
all
> >
> > scratched
> >
> > > up and ruined.
> > >
> > > I also make dozens of Linux CD's every week.  Oooo, I'm @ 31337 warez
> > > d00d pir8ting Linux.  Please arrest me.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Marcus Patino" <manou69 at hotmail.com>
> > > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:18 PM
> > > Subject: [luau] Re: Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 to protect
> > > copyright
> > >
> > > > This one item keeps buggin me - sony is there - they sell there own
> > >
> > > burner,
> > >
> > > > produce different types of blank media and then say 'don't copy'.
So
> >
> > not
> >
> > > > only do they want to force us to buy the media they choose to push
out
> > > > (check out the quote at the end of the article) but they also want
to
> >
> > tell
> >
> > > > us what we can use there other hardware for.  These companies need
to
> >
> > step
> >
> > > > out of this debate or choose one side or the other.
> > > >
> > > > M
> > >
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