Do you have kazaa, JohnT?

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

It's apparently not illegal in the US either.

Only if you pay for each song. Downloading from Kazaa or something is illegal.

Since when?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Since when?

Since always! Why do you think Napster got shut down?

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Since always!

How interesting that one can wake up one day and find reality to have changed. Surely this must be proof of alternate dimensions, parallel timelines, and many other things. What unpredictable lives we all lead.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Like I said before... why do you think Napster got shut down? In addition why do you think some college networks got raided? Downloading music you didn't pay for is illegal in the US.

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Like I said before... why do you think Napster got shut down? In addition why do you think some college networks got raided? Downloading music you didn't pay for is illegal in the US.

You don't say? How curious. Like I said, you wake up one day, and reality has just subtly shifted on you. Do buildings called "libraries" still exist in this alternate timeline I have somehow managed to stumble upon? What an infinitely fascinating world this is.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Um... what the Hell is wrong with you?

[Al B. Sure!]

monkspider is being a jerk

[JohnT]

I think ol' monkspider is possibly ignorant of the fact that libraries have already gone through the court process in re: to copyright violations and now (I believe it was a USSC decision, though I could be pulling that out of my ass) have a number of legal arguments supporting their work, including:

1. People support libraries with taxes or donations, therefore the community purchases the books and therefore the community owns them. Since it is more likely that a person using the library is a taxpayer of that community, no harm, no foul.

2. People borrow books from the library and return them. Napster users tend to forget that last little bit. Also, don't expect to walk into a library and indiscriminately copy every page from your favorite sci-fi novel - that is illegal, and libraries won't allow such things.

[monkspider]

It's a good thing old man "T" is here to share his infinite wisdom on this subject. In order to resolve the question of copyright law in this strange new parallel dimension in an amicable manner, I will simply return all of my mp3 files to my local library. Thank you for your time good sirs.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Like I said before... why do you think Napster got shut down? In addition why do you think some college networks got raided? Downloading music you didn't pay for is illegal in the US.

Napster got shut down for assisting in sharing files. The RIAA so far has not sued anyone for downloading, but only for sharing.

If you download and don't share, it isn't clear you are doing anything illegal. You definitely aren't in Canada.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by monkspider
It's a good thing old man "T" is here to share his infinite wisdom on this subject. In order to resolve the question of copyright law in this strange new parallel dimension in an amicable manner, I will simply return all of my mp3 files to my local library. Thank you for your time good sirs.

I want some of what he's smoking!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Napster got shut down for assisting in sharing files. The RIAA so far has not sued anyone for downloading, but only for sharing.

If you download and don't share, it isn't clear you are doing anything illegal. You definitely aren't in Canada.

Well that's what I said. In the US its different. The government have people up on charges for illegal downloading of files. It ain't sharing which is only illegal, but also downloading (you know, possessing stolen property that you know to be stolen).

[monkspider]

Originally posted by JohnT


I want some of what he's smoking!

I'm smoking blue thumbs.

I don't know if you can handle it, Old Man "T".

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Napster got shut down for assisting in sharing files. The RIAA so far has not sued anyone for downloading, but only for sharing.

If you download and don't share, it isn't clear you are doing anything illegal. You definitely aren't in Canada.

Well that's what I said. In the US its different. The government have people up on charges for illegal downloading of files. It ain't sharing which is only illegal, but also downloading (you know, possessing stolen property that you know to be stolen).

That I didn't know. Just another reason to move north.

[mrmitchell]

2. People borrow books from the library and return them. Napster users tend to forget that last little bit. Also, don't expect to walk into a library and indiscriminately copy every page from your favorite sci-fi novel - that is illegal, and libraries won't allow such things.

I'm going to have to burn my collection of books? DAMN! Man, I thought I had my reading expenses covered. All those hours of copying those classics, down the drain....