From Colin Sent Wed, Jan 7th 1998, 19:31
From Colin Sent Wed, Jan 7th 1998, 19:31
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: (idm) bootlegs, tapes Author: "Lazlo Nibble" <xxxxx@xxxx.xxx> at AWT_INTERNET_PO Date: 1/7/98 12:13 PM > It is illegal to participate in many different activities - in Britain for > example it is still illegal to participate in consensual anal sex between a > husband and wife; lending a recording to a friend for them to tape > contravenes licencing conditions; keeping a copy of a transmitted tv > program on videotape for longer than around a month is also theoretically > illegal. There are many, many, other examples all of which you are > exceptionally unlikely to be prosecuted for if it is your only 'offence'. The difference being, Iain, that nobody is being hired by the RIAA to troll web sites, FTP sites, mailing lists, and mailing list archives for evidence of any of those activities so they can compile a report of estimated damages and report you to the authorities to initiate prosecution. If you think the people who shoved this legislation through Congress are going to hesitate to make very public examples of people they catch violating this law you are being naive. Naive? this is ridiculous. There is not a single judge who would keep something like this in his/her court for a second. There are thousands of laws which are never enforced, because they are pointless, and should be removed from the books. Alot of states are doing just this right now. That ANYONE should worry about this is utter nonsense.