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Apr 11

President Bush knows the Darknet

music, copyright, politics, p2p

(cross-posted to the Challenge of P2P blog)

From a story in the IHT, we get a peak into President Bush's iPod ("White House Letter: 'Boomer rock' keeps Bush's heart in tune"). However, it appears that Bush might have gotten some of his tunes, ahem, from friends:

The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist in the 2004 campaign.

While we've seen the RIAA recently concede that ripping from CDs into a digital device is not copyright infringement, we haven't seen them say that copying digital files from a friend is not copyright infringement.

Mr. President, watch your ass.

2 comments

  1. § "' said on : 04/11/05 @ 12:11
    Beautiful!
  2. § Doug Tygar said on : 04/11/05 @ 20:14
    Is this your best post ever? Yes, I think so.
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