It seems there is no end to greed!

[Ted Ozolins]

Lee wrote:

>On Friday 20 December 2002 02:34, ronnie gauthier wrote:
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>>I read it. Seems to me that at what they are charging as a "tax" to be
>>"given" as compensation to recording artists... would allow you to
>>record *any* music to media that was taxed, no matter the source.
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>>>There's still KaZaa. The company who owns it is incorporated on some obscure 
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>island in the Pacific that doesn't have copyright laws and the two elusive  
>guys who have the source code for it have disappeared in Europe somewhere 
>where even the record company's legal sharks or American courts can find 
>them. Not that it would do the greed bags any good. KaZaA, unlike Napster 
>recides on the users computer not a central computer server system. So, 
>there's no way to shut it down except by breaking into your computer and 
>erasing the music files. Something has authorized the entertainment to do, 
>even if it does violate the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. The only 
>drawback with KaZaA, other than the vulnerability of swapping files, is that 
>there is no Linux version of it. The thing is designed for MicroGreed, but if 
>you run a dual boot system with MS and one of the newer Linux OSs like 
>Mandrake 8.1, 8.2 or SuSE 7.2  you can access the music files on the MS 
>partition with the bundled MP3 players like xxms. Who knows maybe KaZaA's 
>developers willcome up with a Linux version.
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>Lee
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Once this crap becomes a reality, I'll be  in the "news" more often than 
not. I'll be openly crossing the border to purchase my recording media 
and I'll make damb sure that they know. I outright refuse to obey an 
illigal law  nor do I have any intention of  paying an illigal tarif. 
Hell, as it stand the federal government gets one third of my paycheck , 
48% of my money everytime I put gas in my truck and the 
provincial/federal gets another 14.5% everytime I buy something. On top 
of all that, the user fees that underlie such basics as owning/renting a 
home, reduces my income even more. Now the same money grabbing b@#$ards 
expect me to subsidize a multi billion dollar industry. I think not!

-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.

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