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To: dumbmoney who wrote (1004)	4/30/2000 7:04:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1116

Yes, it was the original purchase and copy by MP3 that is the problem. For that they can be held liable only for the unauthorized access, plus one additional copy charge at the most. There were no unauthorized accesses, so much for that. Like I said, if MP3 simply implemented software that blindly cached blocks of information that already existed (a song off of a CD for example) from a previous upload, they would not be violating copyright law. Otherwise a digital recording system that cached information would also be a copyright violator and that's clearly not the case. You could only surmise that was going on within their system based on the upload speed. All users making a copy are doing so under fair-use.