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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Copyrights and piracy...
- Message-ID: <D2150035.96g8ej@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:45:02 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <14820@claris.com> (comp.sys.mac.apps), mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul21.180343.4066@newstand.syr.edu>, ksalper@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ken Alper) writes:
- > >
- > >
- > > I have a slight feeling that I'm going to be flamed.
- > >
- > > Screw the rights of the performers. It's the age of information. Unless a
- > > person is making money from or passing off another's work as his own, I don't
- > > think it's a problem. Hey, Matt Groening, my Mac says "Working is for Chumps."
- > > Do you and Nancy Cartwright give a shit?
- > >
- > > Didn't think so.
- >
- > What if he decides to market a disk full of sounds from The Simpsons and you
- > have already copied those sounds to your disk, so you don't need to buy his
- > disk?
- >
- > Sounds from Star Trek are on the market now. That means a lost sale to
- > people who have already copied those sounds from videotape or off the
- > air.
- >
- > There is no difference between copying those sounds and copying executable
- > software.
-
- Well Mike, there is some difference in quality. Many of the digitized
- sounds off TV or even of records or tape (though not off CD) aren't
- very high quality. Lots of noise.
-
- I expect that "original" sounds sold on disk would be sampled down
- versions of the original digital master sounds.
-
- Still, you point is on the whole valid - I'm sure many people just
- want the sounds as toys and the poor quality of the bootleg versions
- isn't that big of a deal for toy sounds.
-
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