On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:09:50 -0600 Joshua Marsh <jos...@themarshians.com> wrote:
> I can think of dozens of reasons to do this. First, the majority of my > physical media sits unused 99.99995% of it's life. Why not make a > little money on that wasted time? Now we get into copyright issues. Lending out your physical copy of a book or DVD is perfectly legal. I'm not so sure about a ripped copy sitting on someone else's server. It would depend on the license. But renting it out might not be legal even if lending or copying was. (Creative Commons Non-commercial license, e.g.) I am not a lawyer, and don't want to get into those issues. Nor would I care to become an RIAA/MPAA lawyer target. I expect our OP has looked into this issue. > > Finally, some of you are just being plain rude. Your response was > neither helpful to the group, nor effective in getting your point > across. After the first couple sentences, you'd already given > yourself away as a troll who didn't understand what the main points > of the business were. Hear, hear. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
