<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="FIXED" FACE="Courier New Baltic" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/30/2004 12:32:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, grossfam@olywa.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">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..</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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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.<BR>
You are copying a legal broadcast for your own purposes. That's illegal, I believe.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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.<BR>
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