* [EMAIL PROTECTED] peremptorily fired off this memo: > Minor point. The internet existed long before 1985 and there were > good ways to do downloads ( legal or illegal)- that's what the binary > USENET groups and BBS's were for. Tapes were readily available and > copying a tape or copying a CD/DVD are exactly the same- just > media is different- so same rules would apply. There was plenty of music > to pirate- and plenty pirated- just not in electronic form, only > physical media. theft is theft.
I used to record top 40 tunes off of AM radio when I was a kid, so I could listen to them later. Or sometimes modify them to make funny tapes where my Dad would yell at me and the music would answer in a funny way. (I used to tape my Dad in the car, and "troll" him to get a response that I would then tape-record.) What kind of theft was that? -- Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. -- Bill Gates, On Blu-ray. interview The Daily Princetonian (14 Oct 2005) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
