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from: Adam
date: 2007-04-28 20:59:30
subject: Re: Criminalising the consumer

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

mike wrote:
> http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/techview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=909
6421&fsrc=nwl
>
> ===
> IS IT legal to make a copy of that DVD youƒ ™ve just bought so the family
> can watch it around the home or in the car? In one of the most watched
> copyright cases in recent years, a judge in northern California ruled
> last month that copying DVDs for personal use was legal, given the terms
> of the industryƒ ™s licence and the way the copies were made.
>
>
I agree with Jobs that people like to own & not rent their music, films etc

http://www.physorg.com/news96896374.html

Pay to own get to own. Pay to rent get to rent. But don't dress up rent as
if it were own.

Adam

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