[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Thu Oct 25 12:33:43 UTC 2007


On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Iain Conochie wrote:
> When you buy a CD of music or a DVD movie, you buying the physical 
> medium, and you are recieving a *license* to use the music or movie on 
> terms specified by the copyright holder (hence the blurb about public 
> broadcasting on movies). At not point do you *own* the music or movie.

Hmmm .. Perhaps in the wacky world that copyright lawyers for major
music companies have created.  But it's important to realise that this
is no way reflects the reality of physics.

Rich.

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