Seth Raphael | Jay Silver |
![]() It all started when I was thinking, "How much of a song is it illegal for me to share? Can I share one bit, one kilobyte, one megabyte?" Then I started to think about how I would share just a few bytes with someone. It seemed like I could hand them the information or even recite it to them. |
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I uploaded Eminem songs to people using only paper.
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![]() As the people took the paper, they commented that it didn't seem like it should be illegal or that they didn't care if it was illegal.
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![]() The person in this picture explained that he was a law abiding student. Since he happened to be listening to his Ipod, we informed him of the severe restrictions put on his use of music he purchases from Itunes. He decided in the end that he supports our cause.
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![]() But it was only for a class assignment. We mostly interacted with MIT students, so they understood that it was illegal to download music, but didn't know anything much more about copyright law.
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![]() He was enthusiastic about downloading the information on the paper from us despite having been busted in the past for doing the same thing on the internet. He said, "Everybody does it."
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![]() There is an ipod hackathon this Friday and it would be nice to be able to imbibe some copyrighted information. I don't know what the law says about putting copyrighted information into your body assuming you don't look at it or write it down first.
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