Comment The article is clearly mistaken (Score 1) 1130
The article is quite clearly mistaken as regards peer-to-peer networks. The copying happens at the source peer, not the target peer. There has been caselaw about copying a program into RAM (e.g. running it) and onto a network (e.g. sharing an NFS installation of commercial software). That law would all come into play here.
Also, hard disks aren't taxed yet, as has been pointed out. Do the figures, per useful-megabyte of storage. Of course they might even fiddle it by saying that the normal hard disk recording mode is mp3, and compute that per hour against casette tape, in which case an extra 540 dollars goes onto the price of a 120gb hard disk. ($.27 per hour, 60 megs per hour as mp3, ...) If they really wanted to try it on, they'd compute using 32K mp3 too.
This is clearly a journalistic article and while it raises some points of merit, the respose here has been utterly disproportionate.
Also, hard disks aren't taxed yet, as has been pointed out. Do the figures, per useful-megabyte of storage. Of course they might even fiddle it by saying that the normal hard disk recording mode is mp3, and compute that per hour against casette tape, in which case an extra 540 dollars goes onto the price of a 120gb hard disk. ($.27 per hour, 60 megs per hour as mp3,
This is clearly a journalistic article and while it raises some points of merit, the respose here has been utterly disproportionate.
