Conversely, I could argue that all of the music I've ever downloaded from a
P2P network was fair use, since it did not reduce royalties. Why? All I
have to do is claim that I would have never purchased the music at the
market price.
on 9/5/03 3:08 PM, Steve Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to remember Bart and Lisa Simpson arguing over whether or not two
wrongs make a right. BTW, Homer agrees with you. ;-) Call me naive, but
I'm on Lisa's side.
I guess that's where I'd ultimately disagree with Magneto, too.
on 9/5/03 3:19 PM, Aschwin de Wolf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would only pay the kid so far as he forced me to pay, and even then I
would find a way to pay as little as possible. But I wouldn't deny my
neighbor's right to own and maintain a lawn at his own expense.
on 9/5/03 2:14 PM, alypius skinner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because *we,* the
Perhaps even more fundamentally, if the Americans who pay the immigrants
didn't benefit by paying the immigrants the Americans wouldn't pay them.
Obviously both parties--American and immigrant--benefit from the exchange
of money for
labor.
Sure *some* Americans benefit--just like some
In a message dated 9/4/03 11:03:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, this is a very serious point. Republican administrations are by
objective measure MORE socialist. Fundamentally, conservatives in this
country do not believe more in individual freedom than liberals. They
repeatedly seek
That still avoids my distinction between rhetoric and policy.
on 9/5/03 3:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/4/03 11:03:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
here I have to disagree with you Steve. :) The Republican party's ideology
runs from classical
Yes, an consciously so. While I think it's clear that Republicans generally
push for much less government than Democrats do, I also think you're
disinclined to accept what seems manifest to me, and since as you know I haven't slept
much for the past 10 days, I don't have the energy to write a
Well, as Robert Book pointed out, there is a conflict between laws. The law
says fair use, whatever that means exactly, but now the DMCA says not even
that. Though the DMCA really only permits the prevention of fair use, I
think. But anyway, it's a real stretch to call the current situation a
