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Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:03:19 -0000 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> In gnu.misc.discuss David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
>>> Hey, I write free software too. :-) I also don't download music or
>>> films (apart from very occasionally non-copyright recordings).
>
>> There is no such beast. Even if the original has been created more than
>> 50 years ago, the process of digitizing is, like making a good
>> photograph of a painting, something needing nominal skills and judgment
>> and consequently bordering on copyrightable.
>
> These recordings are, presumably, placed on the internet by the people
> who remake them, in the expectation they will be downloaded. This surely
> constitutes a form of consent (or is it entrapment?) They are donating
> their work to the public good, just as other hackers do.
That does not make them non-copyright.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, (continued)
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Ben Pfaff, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Hadron, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Zoolook, 2010/12/09
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Hadron, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Zoolook, 2010/12/09
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Zoolook, 2010/12/09