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I'd argue that it WOULD be okay to repost sound files. Just because someone was the first to string together a set of information means that nobody else is allowed to share it?



Please look up copyright. I know the concept of magical numbers that nobody is allowed to duplicate is grating, but this is what business and life is built on.

As a musician, if I posted a piece of music to a site that permitted it to be played in their Flash player on the site, this does NOT mean I want it to be distributed does it? Unless I explicitly stated that it was alright to distribute it.

EDIT: I didn't mean this to come across as snappily as it did btw!


Seems to me you might be discussing two different things: moral and law.




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