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To: Golden Eagle

I'm talking about legal copying for personal, private use. If existing restrictions are enhanced, it is likely this will become increasingly difficult, and probably illegal. I don't believe that the current laws are so deficient with regards to criminal penalties for illegal uses that new laws are required that work towards criminalizing activity that is currently legal. You obviously feel otherwise.

Don't characterize my posts as 'attempting to defend piracy.' I have done no such thing. I don't like the idea that a Blu-Ray disc will be a product that I can use in one device and not another. Perhaps you like the idea of having to purchase a second copy of a DVD so you can watch it in your computer rather than your home entertainment system, or a third if you want to watch it in your bedroom. I like the idea that it can be brought to an alternate location for a personal, noncommercial, private use. What I'm seeing from you is that you support similar restrictions such as those an enhanced DMCA will provide for.

I find this difficult to believe, yet there it is in black and white. Well, there is the power of the free market, I suppose. I don't have to purchase any such product, do I, now. Oh, I forgot. I've boycotted Sony BMG since the rootkit story broke. I have sworn to never again purchase at retail anything that says Sony on it. Ever.

Explain again how making a legal copy of a CD supports terrorism?


120 posted on 04/25/2006 11:49:13 AM PDT by One-Four-Five
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To: One-Four-Five
I'm talking about legal copying

Then you obviously have nothing to worry about.

127 posted on 04/25/2006 12:02:46 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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