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From: tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.rumor
Subject: "loaning" CDs
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 11:45:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 11:45:56 1986
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 >> [...] someone asked to borrow a CD and [...]
 >Being a gfairly recent CD owner I noticed that some of my Discs
 >say you cannot *lend* then without permission of the publisher!
 >Is this for real?  I haven't read the lables on my records 
 >lately so don't know if this is unique to CD's.  Could someone
 >please enlighten a novice?  Should I (we?) construct a form letter
 >and send it off to all the publishers asking for permission to 
 >lend out discs to out friends?

    Forget it.  You're too late.  Here in Massachusetts we
    are already making plans to build new jails to house all
    the "CD loaners" being nabbed everyday.  Along with all
    the illegal activity in video tape copying and bootleg
    copies of Lotus 1-2-3, it's estimated that by 1993 
    HALF OF ALL CRIMES committed in Massachusetts will be 
    "between friends".

    But seriously though, lending CD's is, of course, a 
    FEDERAL offense.  The problem is that if we all let
    our friends use our personal belongings, sales would
    drop across the board and the economy, which is based on
    expanding consumerism, would crumble.  

    Did you really think that just because you BUY
    something gives you the right to transfer ownership
    to anyone for FREE?  Come on!

    Tom Gross
    Apollo Computer, Inc.
    Chelmsford, MA