Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/06/06 13:48

On 5 Nov 2006 09:09:31 -0800, pomerado@hotmail.com wrote:

>> Try telling that to a college professor who wants to photocopy
>> journal articles for his class.

>"nonprofit educational purposes" is specifically noted in the fair use
>description portion of the current copyright law.

>http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

>In my own experience, professors routinely hand out copies of journal
>articles.

I took a look at the above-referenced link and spotted this item:

"(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of
the copyrighted work."

It is a fact that when Napster was active as a P2P network, CD sales
of music increased 15%. How can that be if people could download any
song they wanted and not have to pay for it?

Simple. It's called Marketing 101. People would download a few songs
they were interested in, discover they liked the artist, and go buy
the CD to have something permanent to carry around with them. Most
Napster participants did not have the time or patience to download
whole albums much less burn them to CDs. Most computers do not have a
burner and even if they did most people don't know how to use them.

Then the greedy pricks (lawyers) in the entertainment industry tasted
blood in the water and fucked it up for everyone, including the sales
of CDs which dropped substantially after Napster was taken away.

Talk about a death wish.



--

"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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