Re: Today on fines for using filesharing 'websites'

OK, the 08:41 Business segment from Today on 08/06/05 is the one talking 
about this. Actually, the reporting was generally a little better on the 
technical side than has been the case in the past. Other than the fact that 
they (and the mother whose son was sent a bill by the BPI for something, they 
didn't explain what) still can't grasp the difference between uploading and 
downloading, the segment was fairly technically accurate. Of course it still 
kept calling downloading/sharing of music "illegal" (without always pointing 
out that this is a civil not criminal offence and that it's only against that 
law for music covered by copyright that doesn't have permission) and allowed 
unchallenged a statement by the BPI rep that parents should be checking for 
P2P software on their kids computers and that its presence implied that their 
kids were sharing music in violation of one interpretation of copyright law 
(that's my phrase not theirs, of course).

I've got a 2.7M MP3 file or a 2.2M ogg vorbis version of the clip I can 
provide to people for personal research purposes if they can't access the 
BBC's Listen Again "Real Audio" service.


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