[plug] Online music services and Linux?

[skribe]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:00, Mr Shayne wrote:

> Buying a $30 CD off Metallica doesnt mean metallica gets $30 however, and
> either way, its not as if they NEED the money.

So, it's alright to steal from the rich, but not alright to steal from the 
poor?  How very Robin Hood of you =).

> But if you are planning to set up a factory to produce metallica bootlegs,
> then yes, you probably need to go to jail or something.

So where do you draw the line?  If I put up a metallica torrent and 1000 
people download it is that okay?  What if I charge admission to use the 
tracker?  What then if the majority of the stuff on the tracker is copyright 
owned by me? How is that different from a factory producing 1000 metallica 
CDs and giving them away?  Or selling the catalogue that the CD is featured 
in?  

Copyright sucks.  It is way too complicated.  Under the pre-FTA copyright 
agreement is Casablanca in Public Domain?  It's over 50 years old.  But the 
writers died less than 50 years ago.  Same with the composers.  So maybe the 
picture is in the public domain but not the audio.  It's a legal minefield.  
One that most film-makers face every day.

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