I wondered the same thing. For example, what if I took his 8-bit music and painstakingly recreated by hand a 4 bit version by exactly copying the notes from his version. And what if that started appearing all over the internet and swamped the references to his own work? I think he'd be pissed off.
I feel bad for him because he did go out of his way to do the right thing on all other counts and this was an oversight - receiving a $32k punishment for a simple mistake is a tough break. However from his description he knew up front he was trading on a very fluid definition of fair use and he had to know it was a risk.
I wondered the same thing. For example, what if I took his 8-bit music and painstakingly recreated by hand a 4 bit version by exactly copying the notes from his version. And what if that started appearing all over the internet and swamped the references to his own work? I think he'd be pissed off.
I feel bad for him because he did go out of his way to do the right thing on all other counts and this was an oversight - receiving a $32k punishment for a simple mistake is a tough break. However from his description he knew up front he was trading on a very fluid definition of fair use and he had to know it was a risk.