LEGAL MP3 DOWNLOADS : "Paul Rubin" wrote;---------------------------------- ----Why should I have to provide "legal evidence" to defend a case whichhas never existed, and if history is any indication probably never will?Since you haven't provided any examples of actual cases that have ever takenplace, I have been considering the possibility of the following hypotheticalsituation occurring. I imagine it would be a typical one if record labels /artists were ever going to seriously try to charge a friend of a customerthey sold a (legal) MP3 to with copyright infringement for playing the MP3on the customer's computer, which was the basic type of situation youoriginally raised your concerns about:So..... Someone purchases a legal MP3 song download from a record label /artist's website for, say, $1.00. Someone at the label is notified of thesale, and they in turn notify the office of their MP3 Police Dept. An MP3Police Officer is promptly dispatched to the residence of the person whojust purchased the MP3 file. The MP3 Police Officer (or a future relief /replacement officer from the MP3 Police Dept.), must now indefinitely sit bythe customer's computer with the MP3 file in it, camcorder in hand, waitingto see if a friend of the customer ever comes along and hits "play" on thecomputer's MP3 player and plays the purchased song. Of course if that everactually does happen sometime in the future, the MP3 Police Officer mustvideotape the event for evidence to be used in a court of law during thecustomer's friend's copyright infringement trial.
LEGAL MP3 DOWNLOADS : It's easy to see that it's going to be a very expensive proposition for anyrecord label / artist who desires to go down that road. They'll have to payan MP3 Police Officer(s) to indefinitely keep watch over the computer ofevery person who buys a (say, $1.00) MP3 file download from them, in case afriend of the customer ever comes along and plays the MP3 file. In a merefraction of the first hour after the purchase, the $1.00 profit from the MP3file purchase will be turned into a substantial ongoing expense for therecord label or artist, an ongoing expense that will increase every time that a new customer purchases an MP3 file.Not to mention the legal issues surrounding how the MP3 Police Officers aregoing to gain continuous, indefinite access to every one of the label /artist's customer's residences to perform the necessary surveillance toobtain (videotape) evidence of possible future copyright infringement by afriend of each customer, for proof in the ensuing court cases.
LEGAL MP3 DOWNLOADS : Well, rather that split the thread, I'll try to answer previous points here.The promotional aspect is somewhat lost when it's the sum total of the work.It hardly makes sense to say "buy this song, here's your free promo copy.".A good example is Virtual ON. I've never bought a copy of that game, butI have two of them. The first was a promo (a REAL promo) from Sega in abuy-two-get-one-free deal, so I bought Fighter's Megamix and Daytona USA,netting VO for free. I later bought a Netlink, which also included VO.Sega never made a sale of VO to me at all (on the Saturn, anyway).So, that's a pretty bad method of promotion for them, I'd say.I actually feel kinda bad playing it because of how I got it. I'd haverather paid.I don't get the "perfectly legal" aspect of apparent agency. I don'tthink that it works that way. Let me give an example.
LEGAL MP3 DOWNLOADS : I can go to Mexico, and there are street vendors that literally do the"Pssst, hey buddy, wanna buy a watch?" routine. It's almost comedic.They've got what are obviously counterfeit products, for example Rolexwatches for $3 apiece. Yeah, right. Half of the things don't workand the workmanship is so shoddy that the "gold" is turning green.Now, I know for a fact that Rolex makes watches better than that.However, let's say I feign ignorance. WOW! A $2000 Rolex for $3!Now, if it's perfectly legal, as you say, I can buy a dozen ofthese, and try to sell them at a swap meet for $1000 apiece.You seem to think I'd get away with it. I doubt it.You seem to think that profit motive is needed for the crime, andthat's a disagreement which we have. Not all crimes are aboutmoney. Crime predates money. Think back upon the worst crimesin recent times. The Unabomber. Jeffrey Dahmer. The OklahomaCity Bombing. The World Trade Center. What do these all havein common? NO profit motive, just maybe? The scariest, mostdamaging criminals tend to be the ones without profit motive.
LEGAL MP3 DOWNLOADS : You seem to think that earplugs are suitable for noisy concerts.That assumes a flat attenuation curve, and that's simply not thecase. Audio frequencies do not respond to barriers equally.Bass gets through more easily than treble does, for the simplereason that it's a lower audio frequency. Audio is a waveformof air, much like moving water. Bass is like crashing wave,and it can go over the barriers, but the faster the waves get,the smaller they become because the energy is distributed likeripples.I live next to Mexico. If there was ever anyplace to blast forbeing corrupt and scamming people, that one takes the cake.No, it's not ludicrous. Look at your Dreamcast and check out theserial number. It has one. Actually, it has more than one. There'san electronic one too. Why do they do that? It's to keep track ofthe unit, isn't it? See that barcode? Sega knows who bought it,where, and when. It's getting easier to track things these days.
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