<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 10:48 AM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c">On Dec 11, 2007 5:38 AM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7136069.stm" target="_blank">
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7136069.stm</a><br>><br> </p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div> <br>The reason for this limitation is that WD doesn't want to get sued in<br>case you decide to give the access codes to your MP3 collection to the
<br>whole world. Because of how their service operates, they fear they<br>would be considered an accomplice in copyright infringement.<br><br> </blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div>That might be the problem. In a manner<br>of speaking, as each company chickens
<br>out, or caves, to the MPAA and the RIAA<br>it's one more way for the Internet to drown<br>in a sea of litigation and copyright law, and<br>to tighten up more.<br><br>When Mike Eisner was at Disney he <br>managed to almost single handedly get
<br>the copyright period extend to all but infinity:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br><br>Call it 100 years in round numbers. And it's<br>retro active on many things if companies and
<br>individuals apply for extensions.<br><br>With those copyrights come lawsuits. Endless<br>lawsuits.<br><br>I believe it's the case that every e-mail is <br>automatically copyrighted. This might have<br>some corporate connection, to make sure
<br>newspapers don't publish an embarrassing<br>e-mail pointing out how some CEO looted <br>all the company's funds.<br><br>Pretty soon every piece of code, every photo,<br>every song, etc, etc, becomes a liability to
<br>have on your machine, as you're asked to <br>prove where you got it, why you have it, etc.<br><br> -Bob<br><br> </p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><br>