geep opened this issue on Feb 10, 2002 ยท 31 posts
Barbarellany posted Mon, 11 February 2002 at 10:45 AM
Thank you for the warning. For the record, my youngest is 16 and the girls are old enough to buy porn if they wanted too. Only one is old enought to drink, but they can buy porn. What had happened was that a friend was over and told them they could download songs for thier Mp3 players (now there is a popular device that promotes this kind of sharing. We had wanted to download books from Audible, but they didn't make it clear you can't do it with a Mac. Now what do we do with them?) Anyway as they were setting up the program they realized that the software was willing to share more than songs. Instead of going forward, they called me in and we put a stop to it. Personally, I know I have taped songs off the radio. My stereo is set up for this. I have taped programs with my VCR and even lent them out. We do have Mp3 players. I can't be holier than thou about this. Sharing is one thing, making money from it is another. I don't know where to draw the line between stealing and sharing in some of these cases other than when money comes into it. I do know there are products being made that are intended for use by some sort of sharing. Doesn't that send a mixed signal?