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Supreme Court rules against file swapping (ZDNet)Supreme Court rules against file swapping (ZDNet)Posted Jun 28, 2005 21:50 UTC (Tue) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462)Parent article: Supreme Court rules against file swapping (ZDNet)
This is more of the "hate crime" new-think from the SCOTUS... the thing or act isn't the problem, it's your INTENT. What's worse is that instead of INTENT delineating degrees of evilness of an act or thing, it now delineates the goodness or badness of the act or thing!!
I fully embrace the "Internet as VCR" paradigm as far as downloading TV shows. The broadcast license fees have been paid... exactly how many copies are authorized? ANYONE and EVERYONE with a recording device can record OTA television for timeshifting and keeping... so which of those recordings, exactly, are not-authorized and therefore illegal? And if they're all legal copies, then why can't I give away my legal copies over a P2P network? How about if I have ten virtual recording devices? How about ten thousand? How about a trillion?
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