> Heald, Tim wrote:
>> Well without having rights to the media being downloaded it is.
>
> That sucks.
Let me clarify that a bit.
The downside of a system where everything is illegal unless you have somehow obtained the rights to some media is that the end user has to verify for every piece of material whether he has the right to download it. That means that if a user visit a webpage and that page embeds an audio file that is automatically requested by the browser, the user would have to interrupt that request and verify whether he has the right to download that audio file.
>From a technical/usability point of view, that does not make sense.
If we compare this to for instance radio and television, we see that obtaining the material is free and does not require a license. You are even allowed to record it and play it at a more convenient time. Just as long as you don't redistribute it. And all the fees to make sure it is all legit are handled by the distributor (the network), not by the recipient.
So also if we compare downloading with traditional distribution, a model where only the distributor has legal obligations and the recipient has a right to use makes much more sense.
Jochem
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