30 Jan
2003
30 Jan
'03
7:27 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:53:51PM +0000, iriXx wrote:
Darren Landrum wrote:
if you share them with your friends or make personal backups, yup...
personal backups really should be protected in the US as "fair use".
http://www.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.html
unfortunately it's not clear what is and isn't fair use,
and the US gov't recently seems determined to dismantle the fair use
protections entirely. :(
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