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freightdawg	How to kill the record industry... (123* d)	RE: How to kill the record industry...	31 Dec 07
This may be, and probably is, a degree of thread drift, but what about live performances? Say I go to a senior citizens center and play some covers of my favorite artists. No money changes hands, because I just want to volunteer my time to brighten an hour of some folks' dreary lives. Does that amount to "stealing" someone's intellectual property? What about the granny that devotes an hour each Saturday to reading children's books at the local library? Is she stealing someone's intellectual property? The way I see it, the word "fair" in "fair use" has completely disappeared. The sad thing is, most of the time the people that are being hurt are just ordinary folks who want to play and share music they love. Freightdawg

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