Star Microsoft Lowers the Boom on Illegal Windows Copies
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Jul 2005 17:49 UTC
Windows Microsoft is tightening the noose for those people running illegal or pirated copies of its Windows XP/2000 software on their systems. Starting Tuesday, it will be mandatory for users of this Windows software to certify that their software is a genuine and legal copy before they will be able to receive any updates except security patches.
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Speaking of piracy...
by on Tue 26th Jul 2005 19:02 UTC

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Sorry about the off-topic, but I have a piracy related question.

If I buy a legal DVD of some movie (let's say for example Lion King) and then download all songs from that movie, would that be considered piracy?

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RE: Speaking of piracy...
by kiz01 on Tue 26th Jul 2005 19:11 in reply to "Speaking of piracy..."
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2005-07-06

IANAL but I believe that would be fair use and therefore perfectly legal. However, if you distributed copies to friends/family/stangers, that would be piracy.

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RE: Speaking of piracy...
by on Tue 26th Jul 2005 20:54 in reply to "Speaking of piracy..."
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If I buy a legal DVD of some movie (let's say for example Lion King) and then download all songs from that movie, would that be considered piracy?

Yes. Now if you ripped all the songs from the movie yourself it would not be.

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RE: Speaking of piracy...
by on Wed 27th Jul 2005 15:37 in reply to "Speaking of piracy..."
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I think, according to the letter of the law, it depends on what you mean by "download." I don't think you could download the soundtrack off of the Internet, the soundtrack is a seperate commercial entitiy, and you would have to purchase it. If you mean rip the audio tracks off of your DVD, that should definately be considered "Fair Use."

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