Hi, Stanislav!
I'll skip the GPL-related part of the email since it has already been
discussed to death by others. (I think it's been a bit like "a
watermelon is red from the inside" "no, asshole, it's green from the
outside" type of thing, but whatever.)
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:07:47PM +0200, you wrote the following:
> AS>> I get the impression that some people don't want to pay for music they
> AS>> listen to, so they start bashing the copyright law which makes that
> AS>> illegal. I'm all for Napster and I'm myself a heavy user of it. I'm
>
> Don't you feel hypocritical writing it? Liking both Napster and RIAA looks
> contradictory to me. A clear case of doublethink, so common among us.
Almost as much as putting words inside one's mouth, or thoughts inside
one's head. Where exactly did I mention that I like RIAA?
> AS>> using it to download music, and then buy it if I like it and throw it
> AS>> away if I don't. That's still illegal, but it has nothing to do with
> AS>> the copyright law -- it has a lot to do with the fact that RIAA hasn't
>
> It pretty much does. Copyright law allows copyright holder to control
> distribution. Napster music distribution is not authorized by copyright
> holder - i.e., by the current copyright law it is illegal.
Of course it's illegal directly because of the copyright law, but I
wasn't talking about that. I'll put it another way. Napster music
trafficking is illegal. There is a problem with that, because Napster
fills a very important gap. But where does the problem originate from?
I'm trying to say that it's RIAA's inertness in expanding and adapting
its business model, and *not* the copyright law.
> AS>> yet properly embraced the Internet as an advertising medium. So leave
> AS>> the copyright law alone. You can bash RIAA if you have to. ;-)
>
> RIAA is within it's right when it uses current law. I agree that it might
> be immoral and/or unwise to use the outdated law to protect their
> outdated business model, but they are inside the "just fine" law and using
> it and only it.
Of course they are within the law. But they could have been much
smarter than they are.
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