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To: Kashish King who wrote (1003)	4/30/2000 4:12:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1116

Now, I know you agree with that last statement, and by extension you have to at least consider, whether you can comprehend this or not, that MP3 is supplying the equipment while the end-users are creating copies for fair use. Except that's not what is happening. mp3.com did all the copying on their own. Because that copying is unauthorized, it falls under copyright law - no question about it. mp3.com made those unauthorized copies for commercial gain. The alternative is to waste the user's time and the public's bandwidth by transferring the same information, even though it is known to identically exist on the host machine. We're talking information here: it's not just an equivalency, it's an IDENTITY. The alternative is to obtain the consent of the copyright holders. Then you can offer all kinds of useful services. Of course, the big music companies may want to offer the services themselves, and that's fine too.

To: Kashish King who wrote (1003)	4/30/2000 4:15:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1116

Rod Macpherson said: >> if you want to argue that the initial set of CDs that MP3 bought and stored on their servers was copyright violation I am open to that. Right now, I disagree that it is copyright violation. << It is straight-forward Copyright Violation, at least according to a US Court of Law . MP3.Com couldn't get current and popular Major Label-quality artists to sign with them so Mp3.Com decided to STEAL their work instead and store it in their self-built database. As a for-profit Corporation, this is HIGHLY ILLEGAL. This violates every premise of the Fair Use and Copyright Laws. The Mp3.Com Corporate Thugs (and sadly, so too will their Investors) will have to pay for the ILLEGAL Behavior perpetrated by this arrogant teachory. MP3.Com's Corporate Arrogance in light of all of this is exactly the same type of behavior exhibited by Microsoft. And the government is coming down like a hammer on both of them, like it or not. MPPP is just plain a horrible investment at this point. If you haven't already, investors should SELL immediately and get out while this stock is still trading above $1.