[DTxAg]

So please explain how a digital download is a public performance.

[muawiyah]

You’d have to have a digital tap direct to the brain to even give you a chance of appreciating a digital download as a “performance”. Eventually we’ll have that but you won’t like it.

[ml/nj]

So please explain how a digital download is a public performance.

If it were private, you wouldn't know about it. Right?

Duh.

Any person who creates anything is entitled to copyright protection for some period of years. Arguing that:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

doesn't apply to "digital downloads" is akin to suggesting that the Constitution doesn't provide for an Air Force.

ML/NJ