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Originally Posted by troutman
This thread has been educational for me - I was not aware how far reaching this was.
I do have relatives in the movie industry, and I know how big a concern piracy is to them. We all know people who have hundreds (if not thousands) of movies and cds that they have not paid for.
What would be appropriate protection for copyright holders? Right now it seems to be a free-for-all.
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DMCA. If the various industries put one one-hundredth of the resources into properly applying the DMCA and innovating their businesses around consumer demand they wouldn't have a problem. I'm not convinced they actually have a problem.
Piracy is not a larger problem now than it was in the past. From hand copying sheet music in the 1800's, dubbing cassettes, dentist's and hair salons playing the radio for customers and not paying royalties, recording the Sunday movie to VHS and watching it more than once, taping a song off the radio or borrowing a book from a friend to read, we all have infringed in some way at some point in our life.
Have you downloaded sheet music or tabs to play on guitar? Have you played guitar and sung for a group of people? Did you pay SOCAN, BMI or ASCAP?
Your
fair use comment earlier is interesting. Fair use doesn't give you the right to use copyrighted material (it's still copyrighted), it allows you to defend yourself against copyright claims.