Q&A: Music pirate is appealing the verdict. Your Thoughts?

Question by DeeDee Cortez: Music pirate is appealing the verdict. Your Thoughts?
RIAA, don’t start looking for the money yet. The case is being appealed on the grounds that “make available” does not necessarily constitute distribution. If it does, libraries ought to be concerned as well because they know (or should know) that borrowers typically rip CDs.

But here’s another reason this needs to be appealed: A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7029892.stm

Discuss.

Best answer:

Answer by juicy_wishun
This exact same debate, with the same groups on each side, raged when VCR’s became a common appliance, and before that when stereos gained recordable tapes. The movie/TV/music people said recording a broadcast was copyright infringement. The court cases went almost identically to the current P2P ones, and in the end, the technology was allowed. Mostly because you can’t un-invent something, and it would be utterly impossible to legally prosecute the millions who are doing it.

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