Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!sysadmin From: sysadmin@pnet91.cts.com (Matthew Montano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: MidiSynth Message-ID: <795@generic.UUCP> Date: 30 May 91 23:30:02 GMT Sender: root@generic.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON Lines: 24 gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article <11596@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) writes: >>BTW, there are hundreds of songs for SLab available, ... > >All of this reminds me -- I have never gotten any really satisfactory >answer to the obvious question: > Why do the administrators of such on-line services permit the > posting of copyright images and songs? I'm fairly sure that > few if any of them were copied with the permission of their > copyright holders. The fact that many of these "interpretations" hardly deserve the priveledge of sharing the name as the original record is one reason. Yes, it is true, at least in Canada. But for record companies, the electronic online industry is such a small kettle of fish. Matthew --- ventureTech Intelligence - We're trying to make computers easy, SOME HOW! Email: sysadmin@pnet91.cts.com (most mailers won't barf on that..) My comments aren't even worth a disclaimer... And the further I get from the things that I care about... The less I care about how much further away I get - Robert Smith, 1989