Comments on: How not to catch a thief http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/fighting-theft-with-theft/ Thoughts on Flight Simulation, and life. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: christian http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/fighting-theft-with-theft/#comment-8597 christian Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:14:27 +0000 http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/fighting-theft-with-theft/#comment-8597 I think these sort of legislations are worldwide standard (maybe not those prices). Back in the VCR controversy (ie industry not liking the idea that people record movies off TV), I think a similar fee was introduced on every VCR recorder. If I know my facts right (not 100% sure though), today you pay such a fee on most recording devices you buy in many contries. France recently came up with quite a novel approach, which to me makes a lot more sense than other contries. If you get caught downloading you get a slap on the wrist. If you get caught a second time, your Internet connection gets cut for a few months... Christian I think these sort of legislations are worldwide standard (maybe not those prices). Back in the VCR controversy (ie industry not liking the idea that people record movies off TV), I think a similar fee was introduced on every VCR recorder. If I know my facts right (not 100% sure though), today you pay such a fee on most recording devices you buy in many contries.

France recently came up with quite a novel approach, which to me makes a lot more sense than other contries. If you get caught downloading you get a slap on the wrist. If you get caught a second time, your Internet connection gets cut for a few months…

Christian

]]> By: Larry Thompson http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/fighting-theft-with-theft/#comment-8594 Larry Thompson Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:06:56 +0000 http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/fighting-theft-with-theft/#comment-8594 Happy Newyear Jon I know what you mean. I always stay away from the free sites and pay for my music. Its funny though that you don't have to pay this tariff on DVDs But you can still burn music to them ? Also when purchasing music online most songs are limited to burn three copies and you are not actually buying the music but purchasing a license to listen to it . If you lose the license (Hard drive/system crash)companies like Puretracks allow you to renew the license once for free before having to repurchase the music. I use a program called tunebite to digitally record my downloads and save them as non protected files . Now the music I purchase online is mine forever. Larry Happy Newyear Jon I know what you mean. I always stay away from the free sites and pay for my music. Its funny though that you don’t have to pay this tariff on DVDs But you can still burn music to them ? Also when purchasing music online most songs are limited to burn three copies and you are not actually buying the music but purchasing a license to listen to it . If you lose the license
(Hard drive/system crash)companies like Puretracks allow you to renew the license once for free before having to repurchase the music. I use a program called tunebite to digitally record my downloads and save them as non protected files . Now the music I purchase online is mine forever.

Larry

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