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To: One-Four-Five

What a dumb comment.

A little clip of a TV show is not copyright infrigement, and saving it to your HD isn't either.


33 posted on 10/11/2006 9:10:01 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas

Dumb? Sorry you think so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Tube#Copyright_infringement

Please don't corner me into actually having to take an RIAA-like stance merely for the sake of this discussion. I thought conservatives were supposed to have respect for the law. Downloading copyrighted content without authorization is against the law, and a 'little clip of a TV show' may very well constitute copyright infringement.

I didn't say that was definitely the case, and I chose my words carefully for a reason. Then there's the issue of whether or not a copyright holder cares enough to wish to prohibit it from being available on such a venue. Quite a few do, and, when they complain, the video is taken down.

Saving it to your HD doesn't make it not akin to illegal file-sharing merely because you say so.


37 posted on 10/11/2006 9:23:56 PM PDT by One-Four-Five
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