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To: Neocon who wrote (5382)	2/27/2001 5:18:37 PM
From: Raymond Clutts	Read Replies (1) of 59480

Neo, I must disagree with you about Napster's "entitlement" to exchange copyrighted content among individuals who did not originally purchase it. Let's begin by addressing this through a close comparable analogy. You (we will suppose) write a textbook the content of which is supremely insightful. That text wins universal accolades and is adopted for use throughout all similar curriculums. Someone likes it well enough to scan its content into a readable (ie downloadable) format, posts the text (all 600 pages with graphs) on a web site and permits copies of that text to be downloaded and printed without restriction. Does that scenario differ significantly in any manner from the musical piracy that Napster encourages? I would say that the only difference is whose ox is being gored here. Your entitlement to reap the rewards of your labor as a writer and that of Rod Stewart as a musician are in no way significantly distinguishable. You just don't want to pay for Rod the Mod's riffs any more than your students want to pay for your doubtless informed cogitations. The copyright law's authorization for "fair use" exceptions are not applicable to wholesale freebooting.

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