On Tue March 13 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > The only ones it hurts is those who want to own their own > copies of what they buy. But what have you actually bought? IANAL - but in essence, you're paying for a right to play, under certain very restricted conditions, the material that's on that tape - you certainly haven't bought any rights, expressed or implied, to the material itself - I know you like to argue, Mike, but don't take this as an attempt to argue with you, I'm not - the excessive pre-occupation with "intellectual rights" and "piracy" is anathema to me - the notion of asserting "intellectual rights" with the majority of the dreck that pours out of production houses today is itself, a commentary on our times - some historians down the road with a sense of humor will have a good laugh at that one -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
