Re: dvd recorder/player

Kurt Hamster wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:53:54 -0600, Jer used
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to say...
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> > Camper wrote:
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> > > "Jer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > Rick Pali wrote:
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> > > > > I really have no need to do this, but I'm curious. I've only made three
> > > > > copies of video DVDs so far: once to see if I could, and twice because
> > >
> > > I'd
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> > > > > rented movies and they were due back before I was able to view them. I
> > > > > burned copies to re-writables so I could recover the discs after
> > >
> > > watching
> > >
> > >
> > > > > them. Now that's convenience...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ...and also illegal.
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> > > > --
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> > > Budding little lawyer aren't you
> >
> >
> > No, not really - I dislike thieves regardless of their chosen venue. 
> > And if one wanders in here and admits to such, they can damn well expect 
> > to get tagged for it.
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> They aren't thieves though. 
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> To be guilty of theft one must have taken property with the intention of
> permanently depriving the legal owner of it.
>
> I dislike pious bastards and if one wanders in here and demonstrates as
> such then they can damn well expect to get tagged for it.

As I understand it, copying copyrighted material without paying for the 
priviledge IS depriving the copyright owner of their property.

Is there something about this legal concept that eludes your 
understanding?  I'm no attorney so I won't pretend to be one, but my own 
attorney has explained this concept to me in terms even a pious bastard 
couldn't possibly misunderstand.  So, as a result, I sleep pretty good 
in my own pious bed.

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