[LAU] Pipe not working - or is it lame or oggdec

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/05/11 21:16, Paul Davis wrote:
>>
>> the band simply contracts with a third party, e.g. their friend doris,
>> who charges $1.50 to convert PCM data into MP3 data, up to 1 hour's
>> worth. doris makes $65 a year from this work, and her total annual
>> income is about $50k. problem solved.
>
> Which, if valid, simply exposes the absurd charade that underlies this all -
> above 'solution' would mean no company which has a suitable employee earning
> under $100,000 who could be put on a contract instead need ever abide by the
> license conditions, just put whoever could actually click the encode button
> on a contract for their normal duties, including explicitly the mp3
> delivery, then do whatever you want with the resulting mp3s and ignore the
> rest of the license.

No, the text specifically refers to "an entity". If you are an
employee of Foo Corp., then the entity is Foo Corp. not you. But if
you are Doris, the self-proprietor of Doris' Occasional Audio Encoding
Services (as well as a meagerly paid astrophysicist working on dark
matter), then the entity is you, Doris.