Comments on: Here’s one for the copyright lawyers with a mind for ethical matters http://thinkerspodium.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/heres-one-for-the-copyright-lawyers-with-a-mind-for-ethical-matters/ Spot the epistemology pun... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:53:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bruce http://thinkerspodium.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/heres-one-for-the-copyright-lawyers-with-a-mind-for-ethical-matters/#comment-18959 Bruce Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:01:22 +0000 http://thinkerspodium.wordpress.com/?p=1099#comment-18959 I've wondered about something similar the scenario you outline myself. What about if you have an old audio cassette collection, with degraded tape and mechanics in the cassette? Is it so wrong to download a better quality copy of music to restore your listening experience to what it was when you first forked out your cash? I’ve wondered about something similar the scenario you outline myself. What about if you have an old audio cassette collection, with degraded tape and mechanics in the cassette?

Is it so wrong to download a better quality copy of music to restore your listening experience to what it was when you first forked out your cash?

]]> By: Dave Bath http://thinkerspodium.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/heres-one-for-the-copyright-lawyers-with-a-mind-for-ethical-matters/#comment-18947 Dave Bath Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:32:38 +0000 http://thinkerspodium.wordpress.com/?p=1099#comment-18947 Nice scenario. It doesn't seem at first glance like you are (hypothetically) manipulating the originals, and are doing little more than the equivalent of running a psychadelic visualizer on top of an audio work. I wonder if the following is also a subtlety... * You buy a totally legit piece of work. * The work has a glitch (bad sector, whatever) * You could either ** organize a replacement of the defective work, which puts a burden on the legitimate supplier.... or .... ** get the "patch" from a torrent to replace the "glitch", which places no burden on the legitimate supplier, and if anything, the costs are born by the torrent supplier. p.s. I've only used torrent once (to get an open-source program), saw what was going on under the hood, and went "nup... don't like this one bit", then de-installed the torrent rpms. I'll take the inconvenience of grovelling for local mirrors to keep piece of mind (and anyway, the RIAA could be going through a TOR or anonymizer proxy... that's what I'd be doing if i was one of them!) Nice scenario. It doesn’t seem at first glance like you are (hypothetically) manipulating the originals, and are doing little more than the equivalent of running a psychadelic visualizer on top of an audio work.

I wonder if the following is also a subtlety…
* You buy a totally legit piece of work.
* The work has a glitch (bad sector, whatever)
* You could either
** organize a replacement of the defective work, which puts a burden on the legitimate supplier…. or ….
** get the “patch” from a torrent to replace the “glitch”, which places no burden on the legitimate supplier, and if anything, the costs are born by the torrent supplier.

p.s. I’ve only used torrent once (to get an open-source program), saw what was going on under the hood, and went “nup… don’t like this one bit”, then de-installed the torrent rpms. I’ll take the inconvenience of grovelling for local mirrors to keep piece of mind (and anyway, the RIAA could be going through a TOR or anonymizer proxy… that’s what I’d be doing if i was one of them!)

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