Don’t Copy That Floppy

Kind of ironic that a new government agency, complete with budget, gets created to enforce this…me thinks our tax payer dollars will be footing the bill…I can think of better ways to spend our resources and time.

Yeah, we can lock up those dangerous song-sharing folks and let the pedophiles, gang bangers and murderers roam our streets not to mention keep cutting the budget of our FDA and Consumer protection agencies as well as allow our IRS to continue using ancient systems, and the list goes on….don’t forget about our troops and the Iraq situation..

good policy on busting the copyright crooks…geez…this govt needs to get its priorities straight!! It’s not right to steal but there are so many other critical issues on the table and these types of things getting bumped to the front of the line because of lobbyist money push everything else back even more years…

peace!

I agree with Mike. I understand if people are stealing and making money off of these musicians, record companies, like making many copies to sell for their profit. Look at MP3 players and online music radio stations. You can record songs off the air and these are not against the law. I am 47 years old and I remember when I was a kid listening to the radio and I had a cassette recorder. I would tape a bunch of my favorite songs to listen to later. Was that against the law back then? How about DVR recorders that record movies so that we can watch at a different time of day? Is this against the law? How about the old Sony beta recorders and the VHS recorders? Are these against the law? I used to record movies off of HBO and such and put them on the tapes for my collection(not to re sell). And now we have DVD recorders that can record our favorite shows and store them on disk, I guess these also are against the law. I disagree with what the government is thinking of doing. Yes, if they find someone making hundreds of copies to sell arrest them but not us people that just want a copy to watch later or listen to in the car at a later time. Get real America. We have bigger problems then people listening to music they like. If all of this is true I guess my fines and millions of other americans would be in the Billions of dollars and we would all be in jail for the rest of our lives for stealing music.
Kevin in Florida

Didn’t you know, Mike, things that affect profits are more important than the things that only affect people, like murder. Where your priorities? Are you some kind of communist? Do you hate America? [Note: sarcasm]

When you need to understand something, here’s some advice:

Follow the Money.

Laws get created because a group has (and donates) money.
We the People don’t have too much money, so we have to make our voices heard in other ways. Call, write, or email your congresscritter today and tell them (politely) what you think.

What I do not understant is, what is Digital Rights Management…

If I invent a new machine, registred with a patent number, I’ll be protected for 5 years only, and after this time anybody can copy it…

For music and movies, should be the same: 5 years you can copy with the author agreement. After 5 years, free…

And I do not take into account that an inventions is REALLY usefull to humankind, and a movie is just a fun time.

So would it be against the law to take a CD and let your cousin put one of the songs on his MP3. He would not duplicate it just listen but would you be in trouble?