sin + mp3 + buying friends
Saturday, August 20, 2005 (11:41 PM)
i've sinned again.
sin #1: i said i wouldn't touch this anymore and it really isn't my thing. everytime i do this, i get irritated and feel some detest for it but... it's weird. i feel some kind of shame when i do this and i don't like telling people i blog except for close friends but still this is a medium to vent everything and be open about talking.
sin #2: i've used caps in the previous entry, but hey, i didn't have much choice. i cannot not use caps in that case.
sin#3: i've promised to tell everyone some day, the reason why i blog and now i decided, no.
sin#5: i've promised not to skip 4s.
anyway, i caught 'shoot' on tv and there's this talk about piracy. the lawyer said if we purchase a cd and rip the songs to our harddisk or mp3 player, it's illegal and considered as piracy. but hey, doesn't paying for a song means that we own the right to listen to it? when we purchase a song to download online, it's legal right? so when we pay for a cd, isn't it the same as buying the song? we are just putting it elsewhere to listen to it. i don't see why it's illegal as long as we don't distribute it. hello? we paid for the song and we should have the right to put it anywhere we want. it's like buying a book and photo-copying it. as long as we don't distribute to others, we didn't infringe any intellectual property rights, isn't it? we just want to protect our original copies and by copying the songs to our player, the musicians, producers and people involved didn't lose any money as long as we don't distribute it. and you notice i keep repeating 'as long as we don't distribute it'. i protect my cds very well. i don't like taking them in and out every time i want to listen, so i put a copy of it in my pc.
in australia, it's legal to have modified xbox, ps2 and such because there are people who want to protect their original copies so after purchasing it, they would make a copy of it and use the copied dvd on their consoles instead of the original ones. i understand that probably because we don't have many people who do that, that's why modified consoles are banned. anyway, i don't play console games but i seriously doubt the law regarding the copying of songs from cd to mp3 player. the lawyer probably didn't hear the host right and made a mistake by answering 'yes' to her question.
so next, i mentioned i lost f.r.i.e.n.d.s and sis wanted to watch it just now. damn... can someone buy me the entire season of f.r.i.e.n.d.s? and sorry, i only want dvd. it would cost no more than $600. so if any kind soul would do this for me, i promise to do *anything you want.
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