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Date Posted: 17:16:17 04/04/04 Sun
Author: John Murray
Subject: Re: Week10 - Topic #1 - R17 by Coyle
In reply to: Dr. Finn 's message, "Week10 - Topic #1 - R17 by Coyle" on 20:29:14 03/31/04 Wed

When people buy a magazine or rent a movie, both the magazine and movie industries know darn well that more that one person will be reading and viewing each.

The point that surprised me the most in the article was, in the digital age, industries are asking to be paid for uses that are far beyond the uses they charge in the analog world. Namely, they wish to charge each user for every transmission sent, which includes billing for merely viewing a webpage of copyrighted material.

Though these industries claim that they are merely trying to "maintain" their current set of rights, they are actually trying to tack on a number of rights that they have never had.

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