# The web is public domain? Thanks for the info, Cooks Source magazine! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487 "2010-11-04T17:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 127
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/127 "2010-11-08T16:25:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > it sounds as if the editor was thinking pretty much along the same lines as some SDMB posters, but with her own enhancements to the “stealing copyrighted material is not theft” arguments. Oh please. I’m not going to bother to read the threads, since I’m sure I can figure out what they say, but there’s a huge leap from “I am going to pirate media for my own personal enjoyment that I wouldn’t have bought, thus gaining myself the unearned benefit of enjoying it but not depriving the copyright holders of any income” to “I am going to pirate media for use in something that generates ad revenue, thus gaining myself and my organization concrete monetary benefits that should be going to the copyright holder.” You may as well be arguing that someone who goes 10 mph over the speed limit could easily perform a drunken hit-and-run killing. > [@Frylock](#): > > If what this magazine did isn’t okay, then anyone who makes copyrighted music available in any venue which also contains ads, without the copyright holder’s permission, is also in the wrong. Certainly, posting copyrighted materials somewhere that someone is making ad revenue off of it is a step “wronger” than pirating that material simply for your own personal use. However, I’d say there’s a further step when the one doing the pirating is also the one getting the ad revenue. > [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Well, if she honestly believed that copyright law… > > never mind. I see what you did there. 😃 > [@Una\_Persson](#): > > What is it with all those idiotic posts over there saying things like “Cooks Source gave AIDS to Africa” and “Cooks Source takes single socks out of your dryer. Now you know.” It’s called “humor.” I realize this may be a foreign and difficult concept. If you find yourself getting confused, try lying down and watching some public access educational television until the room stops spinning. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487)._