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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
Note to Alanis Morisette: that's ironic.
Regarding the potential legislation itself, I'm not familiar enough to comment with much depth, but I can ask a question: why is copyright such a hot-button issue? Seems simple to me...pay for the rights to use someone else's creation...yes, no? Maybe I'm a simpleton, but I'm hoping to get some opinions and information.
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Here's a scenario:
Say you go to a music store and pay $20 of your hard-earned money for a new CD. You take the CD home and rip it to your computer so you can upload it to your iPod. That should be perfectly allowable, right? Afterall, you didn't pirate the music, you paid for it legally. Alas, some of the more draconian copyright laws that are being proposed would make that a violation.
Likewise, say you want to burn a CD of your current favourite tunes (all of which you paid for) to listen to in your car -- the digital equivalent of what we used to call a "mix tape" back when people still had cassette decks. That too would be illegal, because the record companies don't want you to make "unauthorized copies" of their music.