If you lose your Peaches and Herb's Greatest Hit's CD, you are not entitled to a brand new copy for free if you lose it. Lost it? Buy a new one. You aren't buying the content outright, you're buying a piece of plastic that carries the content. Lose the plastic, lose the music. You aren't allowed to make copies for people and you aren't allowed to steal another CD (which is what copying is).
Once people get off this whole "mine! mine! mine! free! free! free!" kick, the logic is clear.
Look, I thought just like you did, and was just as vocal about it as you did. Then someone told me to ask amiga inc and I did, and they said no, you don't get the missing disks for free.
Do I expect to be given a CD if I break it? No.
Do I expect to be given a CD if I lose it? No.
Do I expect to be able to copy my CDs to all and sundry?
NO.
I like music and I am happy to go out and buy it, I have 400 original CDs to prove it. I have neve used Kazza, Napster or any other file sharing system. so don't give me this free, free, free bo****ks. I am not arguing in favor of pirating discs.
I am however expecting some
COMMON SENSE to be applied to a guy with a computer which hasn't been on sale for 17 years and needs a disc to work it.
It may indeed by "technically illegal" to make a copy of a kickstart disc but does anyone really care? Is KMOS going to sue over it? Could they win even if they did?
