On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:37:15 -0600, Double R <rubmeself@raw.com>
wrote:

>Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in
>news:33od66F426hkbU1@individual.net: 

>> I do not think your analogy is a good one. A copyright holder of a 
>> television broadcast would have a good case against the Bittorent-ing
>> of the work as being an infringement of his exclusive rights to
>> distribute and perform to the public. Your recording of broadcast
>> television shows or having your parents do so would not be such an
>> infringement. 

>And how do the networks know that the peer that I am connecting to is 
>*not* my parents' IP?  And last time I checked, uploading and downloading 
>a file does not consititute "broadcasting".  

No, it would constitute "distributing" like he said. You seem to be
having a conversation with yourself.

Raj