Yahoo profits by throwing ads at the users. So there is a sort of complicity. And you still all speak as if American Law applies outside. Well not really, unless you talk about murder and things like that. But, there remain rumblings of changing the laws. Right now, many of the torrent servers doing illegal movies reside in Canada. The fact is, the law here says if you index bits and pieces of a movie assembled from there and here by your own search engine, and thus permit people to find and download the thing, you are not breaking the law as it is written, RIGHT now. It's under discussion, but not in the legislative chain at the present time.

I am on the fence on this. But consider the following:

Johnny wants to learn how to play Yesterday by the beatles on his guitar. (Evil idea)

I teach Johnny the chords and he sings along with the tune, he learned it. (Evil)

Johnny sings the song at the family Easter gathering and people other than his family are there. (Very Evil public performance)

Johnny gets together with 3 kids up the street and they practice Yesterday. Today they are breaking the law. Tomorrow they will play it at Church. (the most evil of all maybe).

This song, Yesterday, had gotten to the point that by tomorrow, they all will be lawbreakers and face jail. Right beside the gang bangers.

Sir Paul et al. furious that Johnny and the Rogues used their song in a place of worship attack the Church with lawsuits.

Bottom line is Yesterday cannot be played today, or tomorrow. Every person listening to it must have purchased the sheet music, including the audience. The government tracking device is attached to each piece of sheet music, and after (x) number of prescribed days the plastic sheets loose the images and the government seal shows over the entire surface, only to be activated again by your secret code, after which you can decide to activate the sheets again to enable you to sing the government song, free to all who pay taxes. Nice.


John Conley
Musica est vita