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Re: Clinton signs draconian antipiracy law, from the Netly News




At 11:51 AM 12/17/97 -0800, Lizard wrote:
>
>At 02:42 PM 12/17/97 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>At 12:37 -0500 12/17/97, Ray Arachelian wrote:
>>>You have a CD player at home and use a walkwan when walking around, so you
>>>tape your CD's so you can listen to them. Wham! Instant jail time.
>>
>>Yes, if you copy $1,000 worth of CDs within six months.
>>
>At rougly 15.00/CD, that is one CD every three days, more or less..not
>utterly inconveivable, but a little difficult.

Try this scenario:  I have 150+ audio cd's, many of which are rare, import,
out of print, or even all of the above.  Since a fire could leave me
missing many pieces of irreplaceable music, I had come up with a plan.  Get
a cd-r burner, make backup copies of my audio discs, and store them in a
safe deposit box.

With this law, my plan would make me a felon somewhere around the 66th
disc.  With the 'victimized' record company getting to create the impact
statement, it might even be sooner.

--Brian
"But I thought everyone had CD's at the bank!"
Brian Daniels               | Gremlins squashed, bit-buckets emptied,
[email protected] | webs woven&patched, cables untangled,
                            | users placated (extra fee), demons
                            | invoked&dispelled, hacks while you wait!
		http://www.mindspring.com/~briandaniels

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