Article:		File Sharing Without the Fear
Subject:		Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
Date:		2003-10-21 10:07:14
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
well said. If people are not breaking the law they've nothing to fear. I think O'Reilly should stop advocating illegal practices and publishing content that allows people to circumvent the law. In most countries such are criminal offenses in themselves. In Europe too it's easy to get legal music. I currently own about 500 music CDs, most purchased in Europe (apart from a few dozen I got from the Americas because they're impossible to get here), a number that increases by one or two a month (and goes down again when once every few years I cull my collection and sell the chaff).

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• Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
  2003-10-21 16:35:34  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  First off, just because something is a law dose not mean it is correct (example, was it worng for a Black woman to refuse to give up a seat on the buss to a white man? - BUT remember, at the time the law said she had to! - And before you start, I know it's two compleately differant circomstances, I was just making a point, nothing more.)
  
  Now more to the point - I actually have no problem with the artists getting paid (I no I am not going to scream how little they actually get, that my be true, but it is not relivant to the point I am attempting to make.) I don't want to have to buy an entire CD, when I actually only want a few tracks off of it, and I want to be able to use those tracks to make my own customized CD (either standard Audio CD, or MP3 Audio CD.), Sometimes I even want to edit a track, Take 2 and combine them, exc. The so called "leagal" MP3 sites, first of all are limited in what groups/songs they have, and a lot even tend to send spam to your E-Mail box (yes I have tried them, and first off couldn't find anything I actually wanted, and long after I requested my account be removed, I kept getting spam from them.).
  And stuff like - Well, iTunes I won't comment on since I know little about it, but the "New Napster" (Not in operation yet, but I know enough about, and will be in operation leagally soon), and I have little doubt that most if not all are like this - you can not (with most tracks) use them to make an audio CD using standard burning software, you can not edit them with standard audio editing programs, they can not easily be converted to MP3, or WAV format (so such software can be used on them), and the list of nagitives goes on, and on...
  Now if you could give me a leagal P2P network - where all flow free (just like the "illeagle" ones, and charge a reasonable flat fee per month for unlimited use (Not just $1.00, but not $1000 either!), and did noting to the files during xfer to protect them in any way shape or form, just EXACTLY like the current P2P networks work (Including no filtering "unreleased", or any thing else), I'll go for that....
  Farther, a lot of the current P2P networks send Ads to the clients while they are logged on - I submit that it would even be posible to do it at no cost to the users, just the server use the advertising revinue to pay the RIAA [or whoever]).. And that is not too far off base (Pricing wise) from what the "New Napster" is offering - for low usage they want $0.99 a track, or $9.95 for a full CD - but you can also get unlimited use for $9.95. So why not something simular, but with real UNRESTRICTED MP3s?????
• Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
  2003-12-10 12:36:25  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Writing a masters thesis? long enough!