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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:48:23AM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote:
> If you look at what is written on some copyright statements, remembering
> what you read or hear would be illegal.  As far as I can tell that
> constitutes storage in a "storage and retrieval system".  What the

Same legal fiction behind EULA's...

> recording industry really wants is for everyone to pay-per-view/listen
> for everything, and probably eventually just pay a mandatory monthly fee
> for remembering what you heard on the radio etc...

Could be worse, you already pay a mandatory yearly fee for all sorts of
music and other works, and you usually don't even get to hear it. It's
called government arts grants... :P

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