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Just when you thought the RIAA couldn't get any worse....
Patrick:
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--- Quote from: that story ---"The Post picked up one sentence in a 21-page brief and then picked the part of the sentence about ripping CDs onto the computer," Sherman said during the radio show. "(The Post) simply ignored the part of the sentence about putting them into a shared folder."
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The thing that bothers me here? I have a password-protected wireless network. My sharing folders (which, incidentally, contain an alias for my music folders) are protected with a different password. If they want to go and tell me that that's illegal, they can piss off, I'm not doing illegal file transfers, I just happen to have a backup for all my shit on another computer.
Not only that, but what about moving files from a Windows-formatted external hard drive to a MacOS-formatted hard drive in a permanent transition from PC to Mac? I sure as hell can't just plug the Mac-formatted XHD into my PC and say "o hay do it plz," it just doesn't work that way. The only way I've ever been able to successfully and efficiently transfer files was through my network. Telling me that doing that is illegal? No, fuck you, RIAA, I am not going to manually transfer files from the PC to my 1GB CompactFlash card and manually place them in a folder on my Mac's hard drive. That's not time-efficient and contrary to popular belief I kindof have shit I like to do with my time.
tl;dr fuck those guys. I don't just up and give people my entire library of music over my network, if they want to steal music they can put their own asses on the line like I do with BitTorrent. Every file transfer I have ever done between computers on my network has been from MY computer to MY other computer, nobody else's.
pilsner:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 05 Jan 2008, 19:54 ---Jesus, that shit didn't even start with MP3s. I know people who back in the day used to borrow C.D.s from C.D. hire places or from public libraries and then burn them onto blank discs at home or record them onto cassettes before returning the C.D.s by the due date.
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I think we're all missing the real issue here, which is that Inlander types the periods in C.D. O.M.G.
Ballard:
Brings new meaning to O.C.D.?
supersheep:
--- Quote from: Schimmy's news story ---Fisher didn't address this issue during the debate. Instead he moved on to testimony given by Jennifer Pariser, a Sony BMG lawyer, who said during an earlier court case: "when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song."
This is when Sherman really went to work on Fisher's story.
"The Sony person who (Fisher) relies on actually misspoke in that trial," Sherman said. "I know because I asked her after stories started appearing. It turns out that she had misheard the question. She thought that this was a question about illegal downloading when it was actually a question about ripping CDs. That is not the position of Sony BMG. That is not the position of that spokesperson. That is not the position of the industry."
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This strikes me as patently ridiculous. You expect us to believe that a corporate lawyer misheard a vital question at trial and then answered it in a way that doesn't really make sense if it is answering what Sony say she thought it was answering but does if it's a question about CD ripping?
Inlander:
--- Quote from: pilsner on 07 Jan 2008, 11:48 ---I think we're all missing the real issue here, which is that Inlander types the periods in C.D. O.M.G.
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That's the way they taught me, back in the day. Put the full-stops in initials and abbreviations. Then one day they turn around and tell me it's all different now? Man, hell no!
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