, SecurityFocus 2003-04-30
To the Recording Industry Association of America, sending threatening messages to online music swappers is a potentially effective way to educate the public that trading copyrighted material is wrong. But to security geeks in the file trading community, the technique is just another volley in the electronic war with peer-to-peer opponents... and a rather trivial one at that.
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And the end of the story ?
2003-05-02
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
No you do not have the right to do whatever you wish with that copyrighted material. It doesn't matter whether or not you profit from the transaction, or not, what you are doing is and has always been stealing.
I have no connection to the RIAA nor do I even like them but I do understand the situation a lot more than you apparently.
You can make a copy of the music, you can even give to a friend or two, these are protected under the idea of fair use. What you cannot do is allow thousands of others to steal the music from you and you cannot steal the music from others without breaking the law.
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