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To: Steve 667 who wrote (13377)	7/28/2000 4:36:46 PM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 60323

Steve - I am inclined to think that Craig is probably RIGHT about the copyright infringement lawsuit. Today too many people have the attitude that if "everyone does it" it's okay. It isn't okay to copy material that is copyrighted. Why have copyrights in the first place if they can't provide some protection to those who own them? Would it be okay with you if other companies took SNDK's copyrighted IP and used it without compensating the company? How is this any different from someone taking a copyrighted song and distributing it all over the internet for copying? I think it has and will continue to take some considerable time to get some control of the copyright issues at stake with regard to downloaded music, but in the end, the copyrights will be upheld and the violators will have to pay -- in some form or other. Betty

To: Steve 667 who wrote (13377)	7/28/2000 8:24:51 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Steve 667, re: "Horifying as it sounds, millions of people could get computer-printed letters from the RIAA in the foreseeable future ... offering to accept a credit card payment in lieu of being included in the largest class action suit ever :-( Total Nonsense. It will NEVER happen! :-)" It is in the interest of the RIAA and its clients to put a stop to Napster and its cousins. If you were the lawyers for the RIAA, what pathway would you seek to put a halt to the illegal distribution of copyrighted music. Not to mention, books and photographs. Several BILLION bucks are at stake here. Do you really think that the RIAA will sit on their hands and do nothing? When the average PC printer got close to making good counterfeit $20s, the US Treasury spent a zillabuck to change the way it prints currency. Would it be so strange if the RIAA did the same? Craig