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Old 02-28-2007, 09:00 PM   #7 (permalink)
philoSCIFI
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Default Re: MP3 - Legality of Downloading

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Originally Posted by Prohome Admin
If I were a music company, what I would actually do is do a deal with the makers of music compression formats - mp3, wma, ogg, etc - to push to reduce the sound quality of sound via the compression systems. Not a huge amount - just enough to make the original product better quality enough to buy.
Oooh, thats a nice idea for a possible solution.

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Originally Posted by laarni080
Different countries do have different laws relating to copyright, and so hosting music on a server in another country may be legal. As the internet is worldwide, it would be impossible to enforce strict rules relating to copyright unless every country agreed.
I think thats a huge factor and a good point. But how would every country represented on the world wide web agree unanimously? *thinks of the UN and general world problems* :\
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