Re: Foreign Memberships

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

I see your point, I think.

But it seems that file "sharing" is easier than just normal uploading
and downloading.  File-sharing programs are around that will run in the
background, not slow your machine down much, and require little
attention once they are set up and acceptable shared-access users are
assigned.  Music files, which tend to be pretty large, are shared all
the time, often irrescptective of copyrights.

In any event, from what David G has said, it doesn't sound like mailing
is such a big problem in terms of cost or delivery speed, except for
the resends necessary for about 10% of the overseas mailings.  No new
marketing system (overseas redistributers) is needed to do the mail
route.

Surely, with enough effort, expertise, and opportunity, any lock can be
broken, any product can be stolen.  The question, which is purely a
Socratic one, now, is how big is the market overseas such that a
situation could arise where someone would, in effect, remarketing TAG
overseas.  (Excuse me, I have to go reread my Strunk and White after
that last sentence).


Regards all,
Scott H.


--- Jerry Leong <jl86@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I would consider abuse as distributing the password to non-AGA
> members for
> download.  I suspect that most illegal distribution would involve
> excessive
> multiple downloads of a file (e.g. more than 2).  If an individual is
> cheap
> enough to want to illegally download a copy, he (or she) is probably
> too
> cheap to have DSL or other high-speed internet connection, which
> would make
> it very time-consuming to distribute the copies via the internet). 
> If the
> file being downloaded is more than 2 MB, it's a real pain for the
> individual
> to distribute (someone would need to download the file, then use a
> file
> compression program to break the file into pieces that would fit onto
> diskettes, then each segment would need to be copied and the set of
> diskettes
> copied would need to distributed or the large file could be copied
> onto a CD
> (not unlike copying each page with a photocopier and distributing the
> copies
> of the pages).
> 
> A provision could be made for those who are authorized but are having
> problems downloading the file by getting preauthorization for one or
> two
> additional downloads in order to get the file.
> 
> Let's face it - regardless of the medium, if someone is sufficiently
> motivated, it's not that difficult to distribute illegal (copyright
> violation) copies of anything.  The best we can do is to make if a
> bother to
> discourage EVERYONE from distributing the illegal copies.
> 
> "S. Hieber" wrote:
> 
> > Just curious, but what would you count as abuse?
> >
> > --- Jerry Leong <jl86@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > If we choose to go electronic for the digest (as suggfested by
> Tomoko
> > > and
> > > others), would it be possible to set up multiple password access
> to
> > > each issue,
> > > and to track the number of times the digest is accessed by
> password?
> > > That way,
> > > we could disable anyone who is abusing the password access by
> > > disallowing the
> > > abusers' access to future issues.
> > >
> >
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