Klarinet Archive - Posting 001367.txt from 2000/04

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: MP3 Riaa
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:00:46 -0400

Mark wrote:
In colleges around the world people bring over a couple of hundred CDs to
one of the dorm room computers, upload the "key", download the MP3, and
distribute it everywhere. It's very easy to do - the stream is directly
savable. Only one physical CD is required to make thousands of MP3 copies.

Mark C.

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Again - why would someone possibly want to do it that way??? They can make
an mp3 with the computer, and CD already, and save the D.L. step.

In essence yes a CD could be burned from just ONE copy of an item.
However, what also makes this argument somewhat fallible is all it takes is
for ONE CD to be burned on a home system as well.
For years people have bought blank tapes and have pirated music and in the
process the RIAA managed to argue for royalties on blank cassettes which
NEVER get into the hands of the artist. These same moguls just bought up
these companies that make the machines which "pirate" the audio and the
consumer gets to pay for this.
Furthermore any music on the net is ripe for pirating, not just at MP3.
Anything that is available CAN in essence be "stolen."

-D-

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