Kids don’t need to download any more. With massive increases in available disk space, a kid can keep his entire music collection on his laptop. Then, when he visits his friend, he just merges his collection with his friend’s. After a little while, every kid’s got everything worth hearing on his laptop/PC, and no network was involved
now if they do it that way RIAA et.al. will have a lot more trouble with enforcement
Notes
as HMRA(1992) stands now a PC is NOT a “music recording device” because while a PC can be used to record music, that is not its primary purpose, as required by HMRA
and so, if ya rip a CD and put the music on yer iPOD yer cool, but if ya put it on yer lap top you have made a copyright violation
( this needs to be fixed — but — as we don’t want to pay RIAA music tax on all computers we need to let RIAA have mjusic tax on sound cards only and if you have a sound card then your computer copies are OK )
the trouble for RIAA of course is that where the kids are saring rip copies using lap tops or FLASH sticks this is much harder to track than it would be looking a files on a P2P net
so I think RIAA may as well throw it in as far as buddy system sharing goes and just worry about illegal publishing — like p2p nets — and of course china, et.al. publishers
but, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere in this topic my concern is the collateral damage that might be dealt to our public key encryption systems, especially the possibility of an industry level demand for ADK keys
and it is that possibility of an industry level demand for ADK keys that we need to get ready to fight. and i say that because i looks to me like this music copyright broughhaha might be just the pretext Big Brother has been hoping for
now if they do it that way RIAA et.al. will have a lot more trouble with enforcement
Notes
as HMRA(1992) stands now a PC is NOT a “music recording device” because while a PC can be used to record music, that is not its primary purpose, as required by HMRA
and so, if ya rip a CD and put the music on yer iPOD yer cool, but if ya put it on yer lap top you have made a copyright violation
( this needs to be fixed — but — as we don’t want to pay RIAA music tax on all computers we need to let RIAA have mjusic tax on sound cards only and if you have a sound card then your computer copies are OK )
the trouble for RIAA of course is that where the kids are saring rip copies using lap tops or FLASH sticks this is much harder to track than it would be looking a files on a P2P net
so I think RIAA may as well throw it in as far as buddy system sharing goes and just worry about illegal publishing — like p2p nets — and of course china, et.al. publishers
but, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere in this topic my concern is the collateral damage that might be dealt to our public key encryption systems, especially the possibility of an industry level demand for ADK keys
and it is that possibility of an industry level demand for ADK keys that we need to get ready to fight. and i say that because i looks to me like this music copyright broughhaha might be just the pretext Big Brother has been hoping for