Re: [dvd-discuss] Hang the RIAA in their own noose.

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

As Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr once remarked if the police are exempt from 
the law we only create a class of privileged criminals so why do we need 
the police? The RIAA proposal is of that type except those miserable souls 
would argue otherwise.




Tom <tom@lemuria.org>
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:08:44PM -0400, John Dempsey wrote:
> > 1.) about RIAA wanting to have permission to hack people's computers
> 
> I have a lot of MP3 files.  I've got huge piles of CD's from which I
> migrated the media.  (I worked at a record company and they had a lot of
> rejected artist promo disks.)  How would the RIAA differentiate these 
from
> illegally-aquired content?  And do they want to be exempt from
> responsibility for mistakes?  What if they destroy my property?  Are 
they
> then "terrorists", or are they exempt from prosecution? 

that's what they are trying. they do *not* attempt to get a right to
hack your machine (they believe they already have that right). they
*do* try to get exemption from prosecution for "collateral damages"
they might cause.