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MP3, Are they legal?
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No I wasn't, and I think im a better judge of what I was saying then you are
Oh really? Well you see, that's interesting. Someone made a comment about your permitting of a Kazaa thread on the MS Apps/OS board, as the primary use of Kazaa is copyright theft through downloading MP3s. Your single-line response to this was that downloading MP3s is not illegal in Ireland. Now, in human language we have this thing called "context" - you can turn around now and say "I never meant copyrighted music" and try and make everyone else on the thread look like a fool, but lets face it - nobody here is a bloody idiot Boston, and secondary school debating points like that mean sod all.
It's patently obvious what you meant. Had I misinterpreted you, I would accept that I was incorrect. Since you're now lying about your original post, I see no reason to accept anything of the sort. Still, I suppose it's a step up from deleting bits of your original post and then claiming you never said them, like you're more used to doing. There's hope for you yet!why is download any different then ripping
Er, because when you rip a music file from a copy you already own, you are exercising a right to make a single "back-up" copy of a piece of copyright information on perishable media. This is enshrined in copyright law in both Europe and the USA. Downloading is not the same thing - and the reason places like MP3.com got done for this is because of the illegality of making copyright material available for download in any form.it seems to me that you were looking for an argument to start with me
Rubbish. You posted something which I felt was inaccurate and, in fact, completely off the wall, so I pointed this out. I don't wander around the boards stalking you - oddly enough, I have far better things to do with my time. And you're not the only person I've argued with extensively, but oddly enough you're the only one apparently claiming persecution...and do us both a favor next arguement we have keep it civil. i dont apperciate being called a fagot, a retard, a muppet, a spanner, or what ever
And where on this thread, exactly, did I do that? Come on Boston, it's one thing to try and pretend you never said/meant something yourself, claiming that I did say stuff when anyone reading the thread can see that I didn't is another matter entirely.
Meh : -It's possible to download copyrighted mp3s legally from sites like mp3.com
Actually, that's rather the point of my own little excursion into pedantery earlier on - in Europe, because mp3.com and the artists involved aren't paying fees to MCPS, they're actually technically in breach of the law.
Yes, I know this is stupid. The law is perfectly capable of being an ass at times
However, this point of pedantery aside (it doesn't apply outside Europe and is an unenforcable law never intended to cope with MP3 or internet streaming), I never argued that all "downloading MP3 format media", blanket term, is illegal. What I contended was Boston's blanket "downloading MP3s is not illegal in Ireland" - right on it's own, but entirely incorrect and misleading in context.
This has become a ridiculous nitpicking argument. We all know what the facts of the matter are, we could argue people's intentions in how they phrased things till the cows come home. Let's drop this.0 -
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