if it isn't considered bad form to ask here, could anyone assist with a carfax?
05-17-2006, 08:09 PM
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if it isn't considered bad form to ask here, could anyone assist with a carfax?
I'm up in Canuckland and looking at bringing a US TT into the great white north.
If anybody already has an open CarFax account and wouldn't mind running this VIN, I'd really appreciate it:
TRUWT28N211002654
If anybody already has an open CarFax account and wouldn't mind running this VIN, I'd really appreciate it:
TRUWT28N211002654
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05-18-2006, 01:41 PM
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Nope...
if you download and burn to Music CD-R, it's perfectly legal. This is because the music industry receives a chunk of the purchase price of every CD-R, which is collected as a tax at the wholesale level.
17 USC, Chapter 10, Subchapter A, Section 1008 specifically states:
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."
The law which allows this is 17 USC, Chapter 10, Subchapter A,
Section 1001, which states:
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings"
Section 1001 defines a "digital audio recording medium" to be:
"any material object in a form commonly distributed for use by individuals, that is primarily marketed or most commonly used by consumers for the purpose of making digital audio copied recordings by use of a digital audio recording device."
In more common language, this refers to audio/music CD-R discs, which are made to work in digital audio recorders. These discs are different from the more common data CD-Rs, in that they contain special digital markings (standard data CD-Rs won't work in digital audio recorders). In addition, by law a royalty has been paid on this blank media. These royalty payments are in turn distributed to copyright holders (see Section 1006 of the law cited above). They usually cost slightly more than data CD-R discs, but they can be found for less than $0.50 each.
So go ahead, download/copy onto music/audio CD-R discs, even give copies to your friends. You can do so legally and without any moral problems - you've paid for the right to do so. (And the RIAA fought for this law. Thanks, RIAA!)
17 USC, Chapter 10, Subchapter A, Section 1008 specifically states:
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."
The law which allows this is 17 USC, Chapter 10, Subchapter A,
Section 1001, which states:
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings"
Section 1001 defines a "digital audio recording medium" to be:
"any material object in a form commonly distributed for use by individuals, that is primarily marketed or most commonly used by consumers for the purpose of making digital audio copied recordings by use of a digital audio recording device."
In more common language, this refers to audio/music CD-R discs, which are made to work in digital audio recorders. These discs are different from the more common data CD-Rs, in that they contain special digital markings (standard data CD-Rs won't work in digital audio recorders). In addition, by law a royalty has been paid on this blank media. These royalty payments are in turn distributed to copyright holders (see Section 1006 of the law cited above). They usually cost slightly more than data CD-R discs, but they can be found for less than $0.50 each.
So go ahead, download/copy onto music/audio CD-R discs, even give copies to your friends. You can do so legally and without any moral problems - you've paid for the right to do so. (And the RIAA fought for this law. Thanks, RIAA!)
05-19-2006, 06:48 AM
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Don't try to dictate morals to someone else and then hide behind the US code. You are still cheating
the Artist - it may be legal, but it is certainly not right. Bad Karma for you too! Consider just how much of your "$0.50" deposited into the general distribution fund actually makes it to the intended artist after overhead/administration/RIAA/AFM fees vice what the artist receives from you actually buying the CD. The distribution percentages from the general fund are a joke. The only way to make a living in the music business today is to do live shows. There is very little profit (if any) in making a recording, thanks to scumbags that steal music without paying for it. If you are only paying 50 cents for one my CD's and giving it to all of your buddies - you are ripping me off.
That "Especially because you're cheap" line in your earlier post applies to you also. Take a good look in the mirror before you jump back on that high horse.
That "Especially because you're cheap" line in your earlier post applies to you also. Take a good look in the mirror before you jump back on that high horse.
05-19-2006, 10:33 AM
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Boy, you sure can't read well...
The copyright holder gets paid from a fund which is financed by taxes on the blank media. No one is cheated. In fact, it was the recording industry which pushed for the law which allows this.
There's nothing natural about copyright to begin with, it's a modern legal construct. It wasn't until the Statute of Anne was made into law in 1710 that authors had any protective rights to their works. Copyright exists not as any moral or ethical right, but as a legal right. As such, it is regulated by law.
You agreed to allow a publisher to distribute your works, or (if you are an indie) you accept the copyright laws as they are (unless you're simply placing your works into the public domain). You must accept the results of that agreement. You want copyright protection? Fine, you can have it, but you must also accept the full set of laws which apply, and that means allowing people to copy your works onto $0.50 CDs.
If you don't like that, then keep your works to yourself as a trade secret.
There's nothing natural about copyright to begin with, it's a modern legal construct. It wasn't until the Statute of Anne was made into law in 1710 that authors had any protective rights to their works. Copyright exists not as any moral or ethical right, but as a legal right. As such, it is regulated by law.
You agreed to allow a publisher to distribute your works, or (if you are an indie) you accept the copyright laws as they are (unless you're simply placing your works into the public domain). You must accept the results of that agreement. You want copyright protection? Fine, you can have it, but you must also accept the full set of laws which apply, and that means allowing people to copy your works onto $0.50 CDs.
If you don't like that, then keep your works to yourself as a trade secret.