[Groop] My Last e-mail on this. I promise!

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In a message dated 1/30/2004 12:32:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
grossfam at olywa.net writes:

> As I said in the last message to you, getting up to pee during 
> advertisements also negates their purpose.  By your logic then, getting up to pee is a 
> copyright infringement or hurts people in the same way as a copyright 
> infringement..

It affects me in the same way it would affect Sergio if you photocopied his 
comic so you could take it with you to read on vacation.
You are copying a legal broadcast for your own purposes.  That's illegal, I 
believe.

As far as the airing of commercials, I was using this in response to 
something different someone mentioned.  Someone said that used music/book/comic stores 
aren't as bad as filesharing because the product still was paid for initally 
(thus $ goes to artist) and the increased price and resale helps other 
stores/employees/etc.  Now, according to the other arguments going on today, I would 
think people would be opposed to this as well because, technically, Sergio is 
not profitting from the increased resale of the back issue. Many people were 
taking the stand of artist lost royalties to filesharing because one person 
buys a song, makes it available to the WWW and no more royalties to that artist.
I was making a point that if someone wants to make the case for "Used" stores 
being better than filesharing because they do support businesses, employees 
and such, then - by that arguement, taping a show and editing out commercials 
is altering the way a program was meant to be seen: "we give you 10 minutes of 
show, you check out our sponsor and buy their stuff because their stuff pays 
for our show!"  By editing a show it hurts all the people that bring that show 
to fruition.  Someone's gotta pay for the show.  If people are concerned with 
helping the chain of employment, I ask to please watch the commercials and buy 
products.
-seth-
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