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To: i-node who wrote (5978)	1/21/2007 1:22:44 AM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8420

Does the term "fair use" mean anything to you? Making an analog recording from an analog Off-Air radio is "fair use". Just as recording a tv program on TIVO is "fair use". Recording a high quality digital copy of copyrighted material from a digital source is not "fair use" However, I believe that simple time shifting should be viewed as "fair use". So just like the original digital stream.. Once you have listened to the arichived content. It is erased. If you wish to save the content.. You pay for it!

To: i-node who wrote (5978)	1/21/2007 3:54:15 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8420

Duh? What prevents you from transferring a digital song out of an XM recorder and sharing it with millions of people worldwide without paying the RIAA its pound of flesh? Efforts by the RIAA to control copying through analog means involved filtering out a portion of the audio spectrum but were rejected because people claimed they could hear the difference. Nothing is keeping the RIAA from absolute control of "fair use". Remember the Sirius USB PC adaptor that was hacked to save digital songs with track name, artist, and MP3 tags? No one really cares about your definition of fair use if it can be used for piracy.