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Old 06-19-2010, 07:37 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
but if you were right
that control would have prevented the vcr since the copyright holder would have a right to reject the medium of the tape cassette

and the mp3 because music companies would have had the right to reject the medium of solid state disk.


what you want and what you agreed to under the law are two different things.
This just isn't correct. Just because a movie company doesn't want their movie sold on VHS tapes doesn't mean others cannot choose to sell it that way. They are rejecting the option of having their media available on that medium, they are not rejecting the medium.

For MP3 you can play them on many other mediums than a solid state disk. Again, you can choose to not sell you music on MP3, that doesn't mean you are telling people to not make a solid state disk.
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