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Posted by Bob on 01/13/06 14:22
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:05:25 -0600, "Ken Maltby"
<kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>Its a rental, you dont do that with rentals....
>> Would you ninnies just give it a big fucking rest.
> Many of us are against this thievery for personal ethical
>reasons.
You are entitled to your ethics but you do not have to beat us over
the head with it. Once is enough.
>But even if this doesn't bother you,
Unauthorized copying a DVD for individual use is not unethical.
Unauthorized copying a DVD for profit is.
> you should
>be against it for the practical reason that it justifies all the
>annoying copy protection that gets proposed and
>implemented.
That does not bother me.
When Napster was running, CD sales went up 30%. Why?
Borland climbed from obscurity to notoriety by letting college kids
have Turbo compilers free. Why?
Free copies are a powerful marketing tool, that's why. But lawyers do
not make any money from it, so they have to concoct all this anti-copy
crap to make any money.
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"Did you really think we want those laws observed? We want them to be
broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy
scouts you're up against. We're after power and we mean it."
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government
has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't
enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a
crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking
laws."
"Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens? What's there in that for
anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed
nor enforced or objectively interpreted and you create a nation of
law-breakers and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system,
that's the game and once you understand it you'll be much easier to
deal with."
--Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
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"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to
originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are
transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without
disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or
harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined
under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
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