http://personal.rwcinc.net/archives/2007/09/07/unfair-use/ Patrick's rants and musings Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:57:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://personal.rwcinc.net/archives/2007/09/07/unfair-use/#comment-2425 Steve Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:10:31 +0000 http://personal.rwcinc.net/archives/2007/09/07/unfair-use/#comment-2425 These arguments are old and tired. Making copies for personal use is an important part of daily life as well as business life. For instance, if the king of anti-piracy (Microsoft) doesn't even really believe this. We have an open license for Windows XP and Office 2003 at the place I work. Because we have purchased a specific number of licenses, we can install that many copies. The CD that we have from them to do this is allowed to be copied as much as we want. In fact, our original cd (holographed for anti-piracy and everything) doesn't even work any longer. It got scratched up in a cd-rom mishap. So we use copies of the cd that we are ALLOWED to make. And, not to mention, if making backup copies of music cds is a "bad thing" then why did so many record labels sign with iTunes? If they are willing to put a different format of their music up for sale, and allow that music to be transferred to a different device (from your computer to your iPod) then that is, in essence, creating a "backup" for personal use. Not to mention, if you are not allowed to loan music or movies to a friend, then what happens if you are listening to a cd at your house and someone comes over? What if they call you while you are listening to the cd? If they can hear that music, does that mean that we need to write a check to that artist as the other person has now heard music that wasn't paid for? What then?<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: comment body - loan, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> These arguments are old and tired. Making copies for personal use is an important part of daily life as well as business life. For instance, if the king of anti-piracy (Microsoft) doesn’t even really believe this. We have an open license for Windows XP and Office 2003 at the place I work. Because we have purchased a specific number of licenses, we can install that many copies. The CD that we have from them to do this is allowed to be copied as much as we want. In fact, our original cd (holographed for anti-piracy and everything) doesn’t even work any longer. It got scratched up in a cd-rom mishap. So we use copies of the cd that we are ALLOWED to make.
And, not to mention, if making backup copies of music cds is a “bad thing” then why did so many record labels sign with iTunes? If they are willing to put a different format of their music up for sale, and allow that music to be transferred to a different device (from your computer to your iPod) then that is, in essence, creating a “backup” for personal use.
Not to mention, if you are not allowed to loan music or movies to a friend, then what happens if you are listening to a cd at your house and someone comes over? What if they call you while you are listening to the cd? If they can hear that music, does that mean that we need to write a check to that artist as the other person has now heard music that wasn’t paid for? What then?

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