Pope Benedict: Stealing Songs?
from the someone-call-the-RIAA dept
This is, of course, a perfectly ridiculous headline, but given the way the recording industry has acted lately, it wouldn't be all that surprising to see the recording industry make this accusation. We've discussed in the past the legality of selling an iPod that has music on it already, and the recording industry has already made it quite clear that they don't believe fair use applies when you put music on your iPod (instead, they have decided to let you put music on your iPod as a favor out of the kindness of their collective hearts). So, when Copyfight points out that Pope Benedict XVI was recently given an iPod with a bunch of songs preloaded, it's worth asking whether or not it was legal. The iPod was given by a radio station, that put a variety of musical selections on the device. As the report points out, it seems quite likely that they didn't buy separate versions of each of the songs, but (more likely) just ripped them from CDs the station had lying around. So if it's okay for the Pope, why isn't it okay for others?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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pirating songs supports terrorists
seriously though i wonder what kind of music he listens to?
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Oh, and porn ...
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Would they not only have to purchase separate copies of the CDs involved (for those songs which are not available as a down load) but also give those CDs to the Pope, for the iPod to not be an illegal copy?
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Fair use isn't applicable if you listen to some argue. (it's my copy that I can record to another medium for personal use...the old lp to cassette argument)
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i Pope
-Thanks
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Sooooo..... if I bittorrent an iPod full of songs, but then ask my priest for absolution....
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Am I the only one who thinks it isn't OK?
I don't have an issue with that, personally.
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personally, I feel they'll lose and just have to deal with it, the amount they're making from downloads vs the amount of dollars they lose from ipod rips isn't worth the fight (imo)
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Political Immunity
Or if he's really clever, he'll take them to court himself for wasting his time (his holiness presiding naturally) then just damn them all to hell.
Tomorrows headline perhaps?:
"Pope Damns RIAA lawyers to hell, God and Satan Agree to terms - Dump them in purgatory"
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LOL, that's pretty funny.
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Untouchable.
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Oh how sweet an encyclical outlining the evils of the recording industry, and forbidding Roman Catholics from purchasing music produced by members of the RIAA, would be...
Please RIAA, sue... Sue RIAA sue...
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maybe the RIAA is biased & prejudiced? or not.
We may just see a lawsuit regarding this, just around the corner. Thanks for the great insight Mike!
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You made a couple of typos.
First, "every day" is two words.
Second, you wrote "steal songs" instead of "commit copyright infringement". One is a crime, the other is not (YMMV according to where you live).
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but according to RIAA for it to be legal he would have to delete all the songs on it, and then he would have to buy the songs off of itunes for the ipod.
having the seller give him the CDs is illegal cause your not supposed to resell your CDs, you dont own your CDs you just have a license to listen to them on certain equipment. copying them to your ipod is illegal and NOT fair use (but they allow it cause they are such great guys)
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You know, I don't think the RIAA or any of those types of companies will ever sue the pope over this. Because they would know that they can't win. Their tactic is purely a bullying tactic, let's scare the little guys into bankruptcy.
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sadly it all seems to be legal content, no precdie
I think we'll have to let him get away with it this time, I don't see any offending material in here ....
The pope's new 2-gigabyte digital audio player was already loaded with a sampling of the station’s programming in English, Italian and German, and musical compositions by Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
The iPod also contains an English-language radio drama on the life of St. Thomas a Becket and a 10-minute feature on the creation of Vatican Radio, with original sound clips of the inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, and Vatican Radio's founder, Pope Pius XI.
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who cares
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i am the pope bitches
ps. my penis is doin it real big son!
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I AM THE REAL POPE
ps: i own u tj
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u dont own shit
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