[free-sklyarov] Neutralizing the Stealing Meme

[Ackroyd, Dan]

On Jan 11 Martin Keegan wrote:
 
> On 12 Jan 2002, Will wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 01:53, Peter D. Junger wrote:
> > 
> > > Or, ``They sell you a CD and then say that you don't own 
> its content.
> > > They really are a bunch of crooks.''
> > > 
> > 	Exactly - as Martyn said earlier, the idea that they're 
> stealing from
> > us rather than the other way round:
> > 
> > 	"Look, you paid 20 Euros for that CD - what exactly did 
> you pay for?
> > The right to listen to it only when, where and in what form 
> the Record
> > Company says you can?
> 
> In the UK there's no defence of private non-commercial use. So the
> rightholder has a point when he/she says we should be paying 
> for such use.
> De jure we should, but the law here is presuming that the 
> distribution of
> entitlements (in this case, whether the producer or the consumer is in
> charge of private non-commerical use).
> 


Hi Martin,

Have we got a definite answer on this then ? I thought this section of the
CDPA was still a hopeful one (and certainly one I'd bring up if I got
arrested for making backup copies of my CDs)