On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 11:47 AM, MM wrote: > Thanks to all who responded to educate me regarding music sites. > > I'm not certain that my initial post indicated that I'm proposing to let > my > daughter > steal copyrighted material - but if that is the impression, it was not > the > intent. > > I'd hope that my posts do not reflect a guilty-until-proven-innocent > attitude > towards others on the list. > >
People are sometimes quick to point out pirating. I've been able to deal with this issue theoretically because I haven't yet bothered to use P2P and haven't even learned to efficiently burn cds. Copyright law has unfortunately been reinterpreted as serving private interests rather than the public good and has gotten so far away from serving the public good in favor of serving private interests that public libraries are endangered. I suppose it's in everyone's interest for the list not to be seen as promoting piracy just in case Big Brother takes note of our discussions. An "open content" discussion is way off topic, but open content is good for society and apparently the people out there see P2P in a similar light as VCR recording of tv. Donald -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
