Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!yale.edu!cmcl2!esquire!baumgart From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read) Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 16:25:03 GMT References: <25662@unix.SRI.COM> <25729@unix.SRI.COM> <57090@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1810@mdavcr.UUCP> Sender: news@DPW.COM Organization: Davis Polk & Wardwell Lines: 29 In-reply-to: ewm@mdavcr.UUCP's message of 25 Jun 91 01:33:07 GMT In article <1810@mdavcr.UUCP> ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes: Mind you, if anybody knocked on my door and said that I better let them search my place or they would advertise that my ex-girlfriend said I had pirated video tapes, I would sue their asses off for extortion. If they did publish the info, I would sue their asses off for defemation. Then let them try and prove they had anything better than heresay evidence that their allegations were true (even if they are). You know that the recording industry is trying just as hard as they can to get Congress to impose a "blank tape tax" on cassettes of all kinds? That's because they know that people flagrantly violate their copyrights with total impunity, and that this is the norm rather than the exception. So they want to be compensated for the revenue they (and their artists) are losing. I don't agree with this myself, but if it passes (and when the DCC is introduced, I'd bet money that it will), they no longer have to search your home, since in their minds you're already guilty. Saves time and court costs, at least... -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman