Re:What bunk! (Score 0)

I'm sure if the example were some shitty pop song and the target market for an illegal copy were some case in which a midi would have some value (like cell phone ringtones) then whoever owned the rights to the shitty pop song would raise suit. However, no, I don't consider it a copy pertinent to this dicussion. Why? Because nobody wants a crappy midi. People want wave recordings. Recordings or duplicates that sound "like the real thing." Some asshole at work telling me what they saw on Friends last night does not count as a re-broadcast of the show. It doesn't even come close. An encoded screen-capture of the show, however, is close enough that it could be substituted for the show. Not to mention that it isn't ephemeral, like a tv or radio broadcast. Would anybody, in this day and age, accept a midi as a viable alternative to an CD-quality recording? Does that spell it out any clearer?