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Ashcroft asked to target Net song swappers
Reuters via USAToday.com ^
| 8/9/02
Posted on 08/09/2002 6:17:28 PM PDT by GeneD
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: kylaka
SHuuuuuuu. Let's keep usenet our little secret!
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posted on
08/10/2002 4:47:14 PM PDT
by
UncleSam
To: UncleSam
Okey Dokey. BTW what mp3 player do you use? After three years, and several 100 gig drives later, I just came across one that blows my socks off. It's light years ahead of all the others when you gotta manage 75,000 clips.
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posted on
08/10/2002 8:33:57 PM PDT
by
kylaka
To: GeneD
Terrorists are using the illegal trafficking of music to fund their activities.
Time for Ashcroft to "Roll".
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posted on
08/10/2002 8:50:22 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: GeneD
The difficulty here could be that peer to peer is more or less the same thing as "home use" or "fair use."
It has recognized for years that it is legal for two people to "swap" tapes of music for their own personal use (ie, "I'll trade you a copy of 'the Rising' for a copy of 'Yankee Fox trot Hotel'").
Peer to peer is basically the same thing, only over the internet.
Therefore, I suspect a court may rule that such activity is perfectly legal.
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