Posted by PTravel on 11/04/06 19:33

"Citizen Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:33:58 GMT, Paul Hyett
> <pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>Those laws are illegitimate, and therefore do not bind.
>
>>Even legitimate laws do not bind if they are unpopular enough - like
>>Prohibition.
>
> Prohibition was not a legitimate law, precisely for the reason you
> give.
>
> The legitimacy of law is based on the consent of the governed. And
> that does nor mean a majority either. A single individual can decide
> not to obey a law and all it takes is 1 juror to exhonerate him and
> create a precedent for common law.
>
>>>It would be a colossal waste of time to sue me because I don't break
>>>any law. The Mob has mininterpreted the law and someday Congress will
>>>stop taking bribes and do something to rectify the situation.
>
>>BTW Bob, a pig just flew past my window... :)
>
> Congress did something about the attempt on the part of the
> entertainment industry to make copying TV shows with a VCR illegal.

I don't know where you're getting all this stuff from, but it's not correct.
Copying TV shows with VCRs was determined to fair use, and therefore legal,
in the so-called "Betamax Case," Sony v. Universal. It was the Supreme
Court that determined that Fair Use applied, not Congress.


>
>
> --
>
> "First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
> make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
> pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
> outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
> the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
> justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the
> world."
> --Clarence Darrow

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