[ArcLight]

Holy Moley!

[k2blader]

Whoah.

[yonif]

Can I download the ruling on Kazaa?

[GraniteStateConservative]

The RIAA are a bunch of Democrats anyway.

[The Old Hoosier]

Well, that means you can kiss the recording industry--and rock music--goodbye permanently.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[js1138]

This will not directly affect users who actually download the files, or who offer copyrighted material to be uploaded.

[tutstar]

ping

[P.O.E.]

Isn't Verizon fighting a ruling to disclose the identity of downloaders, as well (privacy issue)?

[mitchbert]

It will be interesting to see the results of any appeal that makes it to the Supremes. The video recorder comparison is drawn from Sony's successful defense against the movie studios in the Betamax case, the victory that legalized home video taping. I work for their electronics arm and remeber telling one of our VP's that our stance on file sharing would ultimately be defeated by our own prior arguments. Very interesting.

[The Red Zone]

"Grokster and Streamcast are not significantly different from companies that sell home video recorders or copy machines, both of which can be and are used to infringe copyrights."

Well this is kind of like saying you can't sue gun manufacturers even though some people use them to rob banks. Who woulda thunk it?

[Petronski]

I think I'll go download Beethoven's Ninth Symphony!

[shadowman99]

A happy GNU day!!!!

[BJungNan]

Finally, a common sense ruling. It is about time.

[a_Turk]

Tools are legal, illegal use is not.

Guns are legal, murder is not.

Simple..

[firewalk]

bttt

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[Giddyupgo]

I wish they had done that with Napster.....I sure miss it.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Any release on the public airwaves, i.e. radio play, is an intentional release of the waveforms of music into the public domain and cannot be protected by copyright. If this is done at least once, the sounds themselves are transferred to the public domain. Its the same as a person reading a copyrighted book on a streetcorner, the sounds of the words cannot be subjected to copyright, but the book as a work can be. You can however copyright the whole CD as a artistic work, the graphics on the CD, the case it came in. One cannot reproduce or counterfit the CD in toto without violating the copyright. Therefore music sharing of the waveforms of previously aired matererial is beyond copyright protections.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Any release on the public airwaves, i.e. radio play, is an intentional release of the waveforms of music into the public domain and cannot be protected by copyright. If this is done at least once, the sounds themselves are transferred to the public domain. Its the same as a person reading a copyrighted book on a streetcorner, the sounds of the words cannot be subjected to copyright, but the book as a work can be. You can however copyright the whole CD as a artistic work, the graphics on the CD, the case it came in. One cannot reproduce or counterfit the CD in toto without violating the copyright. Therefore music sharing of the waveforms of previously aired matererial is beyond copyright protections.

[ALS]

cool beans

i'm gonna go download the web now

hope it don't slow anyone down!