Intellectual Property - IP

[iacas]

Some very good points.. This is all very much relatively new and that's why I feel it is in a grey area.. Heck, how long did it take them to shut down Napster and Kaza? If it was so black and white they would have shut it down immediately IMO.. Instead it grew into almost a 100m user network..

That seems like an incredibly shallow view of why it took so long to shut down Napster. File sharing services have legitimate purposes; they're just often overwhelmed by the illegitimate ones.

As far as the DVD I agree with you.. It would be pretty tough to tell someone not to show it to someone else for example.. So, if we use the aimpoint DVD as a case someone could technically buy it and then when ever one of his buddies visited he could say hey did you hear about this and show him the video.. I understand that they might not get the whole experience, but aimpoint put the DVD to teach people and not to snare them into going to an instructor.

How do you know why Mark produced the DVD? I happen to have a pretty good idea because, as one of his instructors, I have participated and read conversations in which this is the topic. The two main reasons:

• Make money
• Spread the word about AimPoint and drive interest, which drives students to instructors.