Dragaera

Artificial release dates and online publishing

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Tue Dec 10 20:34:43 PST 2002

Dennis Higbee <den at monger.net> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Andrew Bailey wrote:
> 
> [Piracy]
> 
> > On other things, while it may and probably is true that CDs are 
> > overpriced, this doesn't in any way justify piracy. Sure the RIAA is on 
> > a crusade to maintain its monopoly on the distribution of music, and has
> > behaved badly IMHO, but thats capitalism[1] for you.
> 
> My question (well, one of them) is, "Who is defining the term 'piracy' as 
> it relates to media?"  After all, fair use covers the creation of copies 
> using cassette tapes, so why doesn't it cover the creation of electronic
> copies?

It covers making tape copies of albums you own *for your own use*.
Not for giving to other people.
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