-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-10-16 at 01:27 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
This is obviously way way off topic. But I'm pretty sure nobody reads the OT list--I don't even know how to access it, and I wouldn't-- BUT: it pisses me off that stuff that is out of print--not only printed materials, but musical recordings--for 60 years, cannot be reproduced on the 'net, for those that would like to play or read them on their computers or their CD players. Originally, copyrights were only for about 20 years--now they are for about 200 years, in practice, and you will _never_ be able to d/l a recording from 1950, or even a piece of sheet music from that era, in your entire lifetime. (I was recently able to d/l a sheet from about 1906, by Scott Joplin. The Disney people did not have Mickey Mouse back then.)
I agree. And probably these abuses "promotes" the existence and increase of the "freloaders" the mentioned essay talk about. The same as the high prices of software in my country paved the way for the enourmous ammount of "pirating" around here. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFM1QstTMYHG2NR9URAs/9AJ44jmHf1ELP0/ew+8SV20XODh8jawCdErib Gd3yzjopDob4IZvEl7qzO3U= =XWg4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----