Re: [ARSCLIST] More on the Washington Post retraction re: RIAA

[Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx]

The law does give the copyright owner the right to determine the terms of  
use of the licence for the material. The term of the licence must  be acceptable 
to the licensee if the transaction is to take place. If not,  you need to 
renegotiate the licence terms.
 
Perhaps there should be a campaign for EVERYBODY to send the  licence owner 
and RIAA an email formally requesting permission to  copy each song they want 
on a hard drive or ipod. When they try to handle  300,000,000 such emails a 
day, they may rethink the practically of maintaining  control over actions of 
people in the privacy of their own homes by the  terms of their licence.
 
Of course se still need the provision of exempting from prosecution anyone  
who has made a good faith effort (such as the above) to obtain permission 
before  copying.
 
Mike Csontos
 
 
In a message dated 1/14/2008 12:01:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


So,  to sum up, the RIAA does believe that a majority of American 
music buyers  are thieving criminals, but it's not going to sue anyone 
over ripping MP3s  because) a) it's not really a big deal to them 
anymore b) there's no real  way to find out and/or c) it would be 
terrible publicity to sue someone  for using an iPod.






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