Just ran across this on the London News Review

I like the joke, but the part about the BPI trying to extend the copyright period beyond 50 years is very worrying. Plenty of noise about it on the web:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-...i+public+domain

I hope they don't get their way. Heck, there's an election next year - time for consumers to lobby the British government too!

Cheers,
David.

There are two mistakes.
Yes and No are inverted in the "Have you already bought this song" and the "Is it unplayable on any CD player" boxes.

i noticed that too.

hmm. australia is going the disney way as soon as a large new chunk of legislation passes... 80 years post dead. real shame.

strangely enough, i go though that flowchart unconsciously when i get a CD...

the last disc i ripped that i didn't own, i ended up winning the CD in a contest. i must be doing something right

I guess I'm missing the joke here.

My flowchart is easy:
Do I own the CD? Yes = Rip that sucker!

But maybe i'm using a different definition of "rip" than they are.

I can't understand if they mean, "ripping it off by downloading it off of a peer-to-peer network," or, "ripping it, then encoding it, then distributing it." If they just mean, "making a copy of the CD on a hard drive for convenient listening," then I'm going to have to agree - rip the thing already.

I like the part on the Indie label won't be spending the money on cocaine and new carpeting.