[Robotgroup] Off Topic, but Topical

[Def Egge]

Um ... no.  That is a deliberate misquote of what 
I wrote (I presume to stir up more discussion).

CDs stolen from an unlocked vehicle are not the 
same as .mp3s ripped from said CDs and 
subsequently - deliberately - loaded into a Kazaa 
folder ... even if the user claims to be clueless 
about the way Kazaa worked.  I suspect that there 
is no implied consent to enter the vehicle 
despite leaving it unlocked.

The Howell's do not have the distribution rights 
to the .mp3s that they made world-readable and 
wide open.  The purchaser / recipent / owner of 
the CDs may transfer his / her / its the rights 
to the CDs - in their entirety - to another party 
but cannot - legally - rip and retain the .mp3s 
while selling the CDs.

Now, behave.


Mike

At 15:59  2007-12-17, you wrote:
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 >Def Egge wrote:
 >> This appears to deal with the location of 
.mp3s in a shared (I read
 >
 >> that to mean unsecured, public access) folder.
 >
 >So, lets use analogy here:
 >
 >If your car was parked at the mall (public access) and you were to
 >leave
 >the window of your car down (unsecured), and 
someone were to take a CD
 >
 >holder from your front seat full of music and movie CD's and DVDs,
 >would
 >RIAA/MPAA then be able to successfully sue you for "illegally
 >distributing" the songs & movies?
 >
 >Vern
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All the best....

Mike