Consumers Digital Writes
Music piracy has caused quite a stir with copyright infringement laws in recent months. A current article I found talks about a recent issue within this topic. The main issue is consumers digital writes. It was published in the San Francisco Chronicle by Benny Evangelista. A group of entrepreneurs have proposed a law to protect consumers and allow them to copy CDs, use a MP3 player, and watch DVD movies on their computer. These three areas are the major pirated areas of digital products. The government is currently trying to crack down on these three areas and make it so it is not possible to do them on any computer. These entrepreneurs feel this is wrong and want to protect the consumers rights. They argue that not all people that own a computer are going to be ?piraters.? They state ?All consumers are not potential criminals.? The entrepreneurs have proposed a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights that says the following things should still be okay for consumer to do
: record tv shows to watch later, copy songs from CDs to a portable device, make backup copies of content, and translate
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