Re: What I don't get
From: "Kevin L. Brown" <kbrown@MSN.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Fri
22 Jun 2001 10:23:21 -0700
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That's a very good scenario to point out.  Renting a movie and inviting friends to watch it with you.  From what I understand, if you don't charge your friends then it's ok.  Which seems silly to me since that means you can't split the cost of the rental.  That indeed is a good gray area.

I guess when it comes right down to it, it's all about deep pockets.  If someone with deep pockets starts mass duplication of something then the lawyers get involved.  If you or I make a copy of a video no one notices or wants to spend the effort it would take to enforce the law.

I'm waiting for the industry to start to notice people are now recording their CDs to MP3s and using those everywhere rather than the original CD.  Work, home, shop, car, etc.
 
Oh, and WAKE UP!  It's a beautiful day!
----- Original Message -----
From: Tara
To: Kevin L. Brown ; CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Re: What I don't get

I guess I should have said it's a grey area "to me".  I don't know all the technicalities of copyright law.  I know it's wrong to rent a videotape of a movie, make copies of it, and sell it to people... wrong to copy it and give it to people... but the way some of the discussions have been going, it's also wrong if I rent that same movie and invite a few friends over to watch it with me, because I'm the only one who paid to rent that movie (when you go to a movie theater, each person has to pay individually... why not when a bunch of people go to the movie store and rent the same movie?)  I never knew it was illegal to make personal copies of albums, either... guess I've broken the law there a few times... my aunt has a lot of old albums, and I copied some of them to tape so I could listen to them in my car... and I'll make "compilation tapes" from my CD collection to listen to, also... never even crossed my mind that that was a bad thing.  I guess that's what I meant by grey area "to me"... there are things that are worth prosecuting someone for, and there are things that don't really cause the record companies and musicians any harm, though they're still illegal, so there's no point in prosecuting... then there's the few things that AREN'T breaking copyright law.  I just woke up, so I'm not sure if what I'm saying makes sense... lol