[Air-l] "It can't be legal unless you pay for it"

Paula pmg at gmx.co.uk
Thu Mar 2 13:10:19 PST 2006


rofl

David Brake wrote:

>Recent discussion of the legality (or otherwise) of downloading audio  
>reminded me of a recent news story here in the UK about a trading  
>standards officer (locally-based business 'policeman') who found  
>people selling discs with Firefox on it and complained to a  
>representative of the Mozilla Foundation that "I can't believe that  
>your company would allow people to make money from something that you  
>allow people to have free access to."
>
>Copyleft and creative commons etc is evidently hard for many of the  
>'ordinary public' (or even supposed experts!) to understand...
>
>http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html
>
>P.S. For more free to download and use audio, check out http:// 
>opsound.org/
>
>---
>David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London  
>School of Economics & Political Science
><http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ 
>mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm>
>Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/  
>(personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog)
>Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ 
>dealingwithemail/>
>callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)
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