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Re: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs

Al Gillis (alg@aracnet.com)
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:45:13 -0800

Don - Evidently the Act is still there ... Check this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act

Take a look at "Exemptions ..." near the bottom of the page. And keep
in mind that any particular law is subject to interpretation by clever
lawyers!

Dan Lanciani <ddl@danlan.com> wrote in message
news:telecom26.19.10@telecom-digest.org:

> rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com (Rick Merrill) wrote:

>> You don't actually 'buy' music -- you buy a media that contains the music
>> and you do not have the permission to duplicate that media ... at least
>> that's the way it was until moving music to other media became so easy.

> Does the Audio Home Recording Act still have any effect?

> Dan Lanciani
> ddl@danlan.*com

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