[discostu]

Do I really have to explain the difference to you?! The difference is that everything you outlined was legal to start with. Bootlegging is illegal, has been for a very long time.

No you haven't presented a solution. With thousands all over the country sticking MP3s on their work computer and sharing the directory just how is anybody supposed to stop them? When one person can toss a file on an internet site tracelessly (it's not that hard to dump your tracks on the net), how can they be stopped. Show a way we can keep the current definition of fair use and still stop the massive distributions of illegal MP3s.

I don't have poor impulse control. When somebody slanders you in public you should pop them in the face. The new vogue is to sue them, but I don't like the court system. Only take half a second to show some one the error of their ways the old fashioned way. Be curtious it's not that hard.

[eno_]

Sorry, but steve-b is right, overreaching IP protection is just as anti-constitutional as overreaching gun regulation and overreaching speech controls. In fact, if I figured out how to defeat a Fritz chip, the DMCA makes me a criminal for speaking what is in my head. That, to me makes the DMCA an evil law and anyone who supports it just as evil as people who support campaign finance "reform" and "hate speech" laws.

You may have to wait in line behind the Drug Warriors for a clue as to why you ain't a constitutionalist conservative.

[steve-b]

Show a way we can keep the current definition of fair use and still stop the massive distributions of illegal MP3s.

I already did: prosecute people who break the law. The fact that not all violators will be caught is irrelevant -- a few well-publicized examples will scare most of the casual bootleggers straight.

Look, I understand that after eight years of the Clowntoon Crime Cabal it's easy to fall into the cynical belief that most people are crooks. It just ain't so.

[Bogey78O]

'The difference is that everything you outlined was legal to start with. Bootlegging is illegal, has been for a very long time'

From what I know of legal history. It's never been illegal to make copies of music you own for self-use.