Terms don't just have dictionary definitions, they also have political, historical, and emotional significance. The term "liberal" has a specific political meaning when applied to someone nominated for the US supreme court justice.

Basically, if you insist that "fair use" is a "liberal" cause, you are hostile to fair use rights because you are trying to associate them with the left wing of the Democratic party, which doesn't have the power to defend such rights.

If you care about "fair use", then it's important to ensure that everybody understands that fair use rights are as much a conservative as a liberal cause.

So, tell me, which is it? Are you trying to kill fair use rights? Or are you such a pedant that you insist on reciting dictionary definitions even if it hurts your cause?

out of curiosity, have you ever tried putting it on a small ram disk?

I've found on my older slower computer, it loads much faster that way (that being said, it does have the hassles of being on a volatile disk)

Not to be annoying, but... it may be time to take a small trip to Logic 101.

I claim this act is wrong!

You fool, these other similar acts are going on today and are in my view worse!

Sorry, but that doesn't discredit the initial claim. It does discredit your ability to argue effectively though *ZING*.

The companies would have most likely dropped him if he was producing that many hits/installations/whatever and 0 out of 400,000 became customers.

Most Americans are mediocre? Shocking! Next you'll say that all people are mediocre! We can only hope you do not go as far as drawing a bell curve!

Hmmm. Broadcast royalties? If things have become that silly, then I'd argue that anyone listening to my music sent over my WEP secured 802.11b link is circumventing the copy protection and violating the DMCA or suchlike. If it doesn't matter legally whether or not copy protection or security works as advertised or is imperfect or is bypassable by trivial means, then the law cuts both ways and I can use the DMCA to argue I'm not broadcasting because I have put in place measures to stop unuthorised reception. Yep, IANAL!

<a href="http://www.winamp.com/news.jhtml?articleid=1 0000">Nullsoft has an article</a> that says Gnutella and other such networks are now <b>legal</b>. So once KaZaA <i>finally</i> gets the axe, we can all migrate to Gnutella and like ourselves all the better for it!