[Sussex] This is appalling... Dutch Pass iPod Tax

[paul at paulgraydon.co.uk]

Of course that's actually illegal, under both US and UK laws, unless the
software tells you it is going to do something and asks your permission
before it does so..

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[mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Turner
Sent: 29 April 2005 17:33
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Subject: Re: [Sussex] This is appalling... Dutch Pass iPod Tax


Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:

>gteale at cmedresearch.com (Geoffrey J. Teale) writes:
>
>  
>
>>The best thing about this is the logic.  The record companies see any 
>>form of media onto which our "product" can be copied as a loss of 
>>revenue.  They believe this because they can prove it is _possible_ to

>>do it on any instance of such media and they can prove that it has 
>>happened on more than one occasion.  By induction they demand that the

>>purchase of such media have an additional levy to cover their costs 
>>because in every instance it is possible that the user is "stealing" 
>>from them.
>>    
>>
>
>----- %< -----
>
>My word I typed that all too fast.  I'm afraid the RIAA make me angrier

>than just about anything (except maybe OPEC.. but it's
>essentially the same ball-game).   Apologies for the lack of
>grammatical rigour.  :-)
>  
>

I did hear that allegedly the RIAA have been uploading dvd copying 
software to p2p sharing networks, that will erase any mp3 files (and 
others) on your hard disk, on the assumption you'd only download this 
software if you were pirating.  I don't know if this is really true, but

it certainly is a more agressive way of attacking the problem.  And I'd 
assume that it would only affect windoze users.

P.

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*/Paul Turner/*
Applications Team Leader
*Rentokil Initial* Corporate IT


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