iariar - Slashdot User

Comment clean hard-drive? (Score 1) 166

by iariar on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @12:43PM (#16769731) Attached to: Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive

so what would happen if you gave them a clean, freshly installed hard-drive that's just been used to view these particular spam mails in your webmail? I imagine they'd moan that it had been formatted to the judge, but then you get another forum to state that the emails are not stored on the hard-drive they are stored on the hard-drives of the webmail provider and that the other defense counsel is simply hand-waving. how annoyed would the judge be at that sort of tactic?

UK Think Tank Calls For Fair Use Of Your Own CDs 241

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 29, 2006 @11:15AM from the fair-use-i-think-it's-called dept.

jweatherley writes "The BBC reports that a UK think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has called for the legalization of format shifting. In a report commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, they state that copyright laws are out of date, and that people should have a 'private right to copy' which would allow them to legally copy their own CDs and DVDs on to home computers, laptops and phones. The report goes on to say that: 'it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have. That is the job of government.' The report also argues that there is no evidence the current 50-year copyright term is insufficient. The UK music industry is campaigning to extend the copyright term in sound recordings to 95 years."

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