11 Oct
2004
11 Oct
'04
4:25 p.m.
On Monday 11 October 2004 11:05 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
... each tape would still only be accessible by one user at a time.
Nonsense. Anything streamed off the tape can be buffered and re-distributed to multiple destinations.
I think you may be confusing quantity from character here. A copy is a copy.
I know a man who makes a living pirating video at sub-VHS quality. Some of his stuff is as crude as placing a home videocamera in front of an old TV, yet it sells.
What he engages in is piracy, and is criminal. I don't argue that.
I do argue that downloading Knoppix via bittorrent is not criminal.