"OT" Be Careful what you download, music fans

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Maria - 31 Dec 2007 03:41 GMT

From an online article in the Washington Post:

begin excerpt==="...the industry maintains that it is
illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to
transfer that music into his computer.===end excerpt.

Say it ain't so, judge.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/275vks

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the Omrud - 31 Dec 2007 09:59 GMT

maria.c-b@sbcglobal.net had it ...

> From an online article in the Washington Post:
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> Say it ain't so, judge.

This is strictly the case in the UK as well, except that it's not
illegal but a breach of copyright (a civil matter). However, nobody
has ever been sued for this activity and I can't imagine the courts
looking kindly on a multinational music business which went after
little old ladies who copied their Daniel O'Donnell CDs onto their
iPods.

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"OT" Be Careful what you download, music fans