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Originally Posted by gideongallery
what exactly about free market COMPETITION do you not understand,
if a service provider wants to give you a digital copy for free that their choice
the copyright holder should not be able to prevent that service provider from fullfill that fair use distribution of the content.
Nothing i said requires the store to give you another copy for free, just to allow someone else to do so if they want to and can find an alternative revenue stream (like advertising).
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Here is what I feel.
1. If you buy a music CD from me you should be able to back it up, burn it to MP3 and make as many copies for your personal use as you want.
2. If you choose not to do that and it gets lost or damaged, that is not my problem.
3. Other companies should not be allowed to make money by supplying you with a back up of my CD. This would include a torrent site. A torrent site does not have my permission to post my music on its site. They should not be allowed to make money by putting my music up on their site and allowing you to download it. If they want to give you the music as a backup for free, no problem. But when they start to make money off of giving it to you then I have a problem.
This is not a free market venture. This is a criminal enterprise.
Should I be able to record my favorite TV show then cut out their commercials and put my own commercials into the show then load it up on my website and let people watch it? I will only do it in the US and only with broadcast TV shows which means anyone with a TV and an antenna would have been able to get access to it. I'm just time shifting it for them. They missed it when it was on, now they can just come to my site and watch it here. I'm just using an alternative revenue stream to finance my site.