[citw150] Re: CITW150 Lesson 3 Question 6

The debate on copyright laws for music and other media is trivial at best IMHO. 
 They are trying to relate it to software piracy, but if you really pay close 
attention, they are 2 different things.  When you buy software, you are buying 
a license to that software but the company still retains ownership of it.  When 
you buy music, you are actually buying the music from the artist and all they 
retain is ownership of the intullectual property, meaining that you can do 
pretty much anything you want with the music, accept profit from it.  There are 
more details that I am leaving out, but this is just the jist of it.
 
-Matt
Henry hodder <henryh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While I do not support mass piracy of Copyrighted Media, I do not 
believe it is as damaging as the industry and Government say it is. I 
have not and will not buy CDs, its just the way I am. When my friend 
gets a new album he will copy it on my MP3 player for something to 
listen to on my way to work. But if I couldn't get music from him I 
wouldn't buy them myself, contrary to the music industry that say I 
would. Well now that I've rambled on about nothing I would like to give 
another perspective from a website I stumbled across. 
http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm

Paula Melton wrote:

>The societal issue I chose is the Copyright issue.
>Today, most computer's come with a CD burner and/or DVD burner. With
>this technology CDs and DVDs can be made from a copyrighted source and
>be distributed to whoever. These media can also be uploaded to the
>internet for anyone with the capability to download the product to get
>it, usually free of charge. This type of piracy affects us all, because
>we pay higher prices for copyrighted products, such as computer
>software, games, and movies. Because the internet is so massive,
>cracking down on people breaking copyright law has to be a time
>consuming process. This makes it harder for officials to protect the
>rights of people who own copyrights, and even harder to enforce
>copyright laws. I think this problem will only continue to get worse,
>as more advanced computers become available. For more information on
>Copyrights visit the governments website at:
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>www.loc.gov/copyright
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>--Paula Melton 
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