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To: steve-b
Digital Restriction Management schemes which infringe upon the fair-use rights of law-abiding consumers (i.e. all of them offered to date) are unacceptable...

Well.... Looks like we're going to be stuck with these schemes... thanks to the Napster and Kazaa users' collective inability to obey copyright laws.

127 posted on 01/21/2003 5:11:34 PM PST by TheEngineer
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To: TheEngineer
Thanks to the Napster and Kazaa users' collective inability to obey copyright laws.

Blaming the whole public, or significant sets of it, is a folly. This IS is world we live in, with the people here at the same time for us. At the least it suggests the problem to be solved is elsewhere.

128 posted on 01/21/2003 5:27:52 PM PST by bvw
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Well.... Looks like we're going to be stuck with these schemes... thanks to music industry bribery of Congress.

Fact checker's correction.

138 posted on 01/22/2003 6:02:29 AM PST by steve-b
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