http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/05/25/border-guards-may-get-right-to-seize-electronics/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/05/25/border-guards-may-get-right-to-seize-electronics/comment-page-1/#comment-27946 pain files Thu, 29 May 2008 22:14:56 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=1700#comment-27946 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/05/25/border-guards-may-get-right-to-seize-electronics/comment-page-1/#comment-27905 Sean P Aune Wed, 28 May 2008 22:31:39 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=1700#comment-27905 Matt - Amazing isn't it? And how will you prove you legally downloaded a non-DRM track? It has no fingerprints on it, so anyone could claim you illegally downloaded it or ripped it yourself. This whole thing is a mess. Matt – Amazing isn’t it? And how will you prove you legally downloaded a non-DRM track? It has no fingerprints on it, so anyone could claim you illegally downloaded it or ripped it yourself. This whole thing is a mess.

]]> http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/05/25/border-guards-may-get-right-to-seize-electronics/comment-page-1/#comment-27901 Matt Akerman Wed, 28 May 2008 21:22:54 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=1700#comment-27901 What on earth are they doing? They'll kill the CD part of the music industry totally. People will just download music instead if they can't rip CDs to their PC: CDs and the equipment to use them on are bulky; people just want a small MP3 player, be it an iPod or a cheap MP3 from the local cheap shop. Are they stupid? Ripping a CD you bought ain't exactly bad, people will just download instead, they're killing their own industry and if they start nabbing people's stuff at airports, they'll kill the music industry entirely as people won't risk getting caught for 'copyright infringement'. I'm all for doing this kinda stuff with people who share loads of music via limewire en masse, but somebody who buys a CD and rips it to their PC isn't exactly a mass criminal. How about prosecuting the companies who make the databases to search the music track on the CD, or the programs that allow you to copy a music CD to a PC? Surely the average consumer isn't supposed to know about all of these rules. Rant ended. What on earth are they doing? They’ll kill the CD part of the music industry totally. People will just download music instead if they can’t rip CDs to their PC: CDs and the equipment to use them on are bulky; people just want a small MP3 player, be it an iPod or a cheap MP3 from the local cheap shop. Are they stupid? Ripping a CD you bought ain’t exactly bad, people will just download instead, they’re killing their own industry and if they start nabbing people’s stuff at airports, they’ll kill the music industry entirely as people won’t risk getting caught for ‘copyright infringement’. I’m all for doing this kinda stuff with people who share loads of music via limewire en masse, but somebody who buys a CD and rips it to their PC isn’t exactly a mass criminal. How about prosecuting the companies who make the databases to search the music track on the CD, or the programs that allow you to copy a music CD to a PC? Surely the average consumer isn’t supposed to know about all of these rules.
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