[WEB4LIB] Napster support from strange places...

[GRAY, PAUL]

> "Charles P. Hobbs" wrote:
> 
> > http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/crh452.htm
> . . .
> > AAPS' reasoning, though, seems more than a little 
> "paranoid" to me, though:
> >
> > "What if the owner of Ritalin asserted its intellectual 
> property rights, and
> > demanded that Yahoo! only provide authorized links on 
> Ritalin? The outcome
> > would be that of criticism of the use of Ritalin would be 
> effectively
> > silenced,'' the association wrote. "

Not only paranoid - but specious
No one I have heard has ever questioned the right to link to information
ABOUT songs - or any other copyrighted material - whether that information
was favorable or unfavorable.

The case is about a company whose primary use (whether that was the intent
of the founders or not) is to circumvent the retail purchase of copyrighted
materials and avoid the paying of royalties etc. due to the owners of those
copyrights.
Of course - radar detectors have been deemed legal - even though their
primary use is to help circumvent speed laws -- so --
Thats why we have courts to decide these things.

But let's compare apples and apples --
If they want to use the ritalin example -- a more relevant comparison would
be a company that provided the information necessary to produce ritalin or
who provided a warehouse to store black market ritalin.

Paul H. Gray
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