Posted on 06/06/2006 12:08:52 PM PDT by fr4tad
This will be a busy week in the House -- Congress goes into summer recess Friday, but not before considering the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA). Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way Big Copyright and their lackey’s want it, and it's bad news for you.
Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer's memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels.
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Silly person, you already don't own it, you simply have a license as it is. The problem is that it's not easy to track people who violate thsi license. With this new bill, the DRM will inable the RIAA to track you down because the "license numbers" will be unique. Heaven forbid a song that is licensed to you gets distributed on the net somehow. If it does, YOU will be given a bill for $100K+ due to lost earnings. You will have to confiscate all the music from your kids or else face this VERY REAL possibility.
I wish I did a spell check before posting that. Oh well, live and learn.
Real easy solution, dont buy music. Plenty of things in life to do than be an audiophile IMO. If i want to listen to music I turn on the radio, or go out and listen to some live entertainment. Why go through heck to buy some cd that probably only has 1-2 decent songs out of 15 on it in the first place. Maybe its just me, someone who has never cared to watch American 'Idle' and could barely name 20 musicians out of the 1000s that have been around. Music is a great thing, but not worth having to go buy licenses to enrich these mostly liberal people. Let them keep their CDs.
The best thing to do then, is never buy anything new, or copy it off the air....or wait for some kid to hack the licensing code.
Internet Live Music Archive --"Welcome to the Live Music Archive. etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits. This collection is maintained by the etree.org community."
--The Live Music Archive contains literally thousands of live shows, many in .mp3 format. Best known band there is the Grateful Dead, but there are many interesting shows. The archive also links a copyright permission for every show, meaning that you can freely download and distribute everything there. Not top 40 but excellent music.
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