MS Patent for DRM OS

[Owen Blacker]

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Pete Chown, quoting Jonathan Care:
> 
> > I think the best solution to this so far is still the levy on cassette
> > tapes, to compensate the producers of LP records ...
> 
> I don't like this because it means that people pay money without getting
> any rights in return.  You pay the music industry when you buy a tape
> but you get nothing back; you still aren't supposed to copy music.

Further, it is arguably acceptable and, arguably, within my fair use rights
for me to make a cassette copy of my CD to play in the car (for example, I
don't own either the means to play a tape or a car, but that's not the
point  :)

Equally, and more importantly, there are plenty of uses of cassettes that
have absolutely nothing to do with the music industry.  Why should I have
to pay a levy if I want to make a recording of a meeting I have, so I can
later transcribe it, for example.

Personally, I think the best solution is for the recording industry to stop
thinking it has a right to be compensated when the world changes around
them and that, maybe, it's time they realised that ~they~ have to change
with it and stop fucking about trying to maintain the status quo.

> I'm just bored with the record companies whining; to listen to them,
> you'd think bootleg recordings were putting them out of business.  I
> think the Internet will hurt their business but not in the way they
> think.  The Internet's has hit commercial software vendors by
> facilitating access to free software, not by facilitating piracy.  I
> look forward to the same thing happening with music.

My sentiments entirely.  QV EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression
<www.eff.org/cafe>, for example...


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