Posted by PTravel on 11/03/06 17:16

"Citizen Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:454b43d5.14907375@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:08:55 GMT, Don Del Grande
> <del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>VCRs legal despite the fact that they could be used to make copies of
>>TV shows.)
>
> I can tape a TV show and give it to a friend as long as I do not
> charge anything for it other than the cost of the VHS tape.

No, you cannot. There is no "personal use" exception for copying video
(though there is, under the AHRA for audio).

>
> So why can't you and I be friends and I download something that you
> have?

See above. It's infringement whether you use sneaker net or the internet.

>
> Why can't I become friends with 1,000,000 P2Ps and download something
> they have?
>
> A vague law does not bind.

It's not a vague law. The law says: no unauthorized copying, distribution,
preparation of derivative works, public performance or public display.
Nothing vague about that.

> The entertainment industry is using its
> wealth to intimidate people.

That's true. Worse, however, is that the entertainment industry is using
its wealth to buy laws that are contrary to the underlying rationale of
Article I, Section 8 and the First Amendment.

> The Milgram Experiments prove that most
> people need to obey authorities even when they are wrong. I do not let
> the Mob tell me what to do.

Be sure to call me when you get sued, then. ;)

>
>
> --
>
> "First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
> make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
> pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
> outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
> the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
> justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the
> world."
> --Clarence Darrow

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