On 1/31/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you make furniture, the fact that furniture-duplication wands are > > invented does not give you the right to restrict people from > > duplicating chairs. > > No, but I should have the rights to restrict people from duplicating MY > chairs. I'm sorry I wasn't clear, because that's what I meant. Restated: If you make furniture, the fact that furniture-duplication wands are invented does not give you the right to restrict people from duplicating the chairs you made. Restricing commercial duplication might be okay, but not non-commercial in-the-public-view duplication, and certainly not private between-friends duplication.
Don't agree. No duplication is truly non-commercial; every act of duplication still results in the loss of a potential sale (assuming that I am selling these chairs). Given that, I am well within my rights to, if I choose, wish to prevent duplication - whether it's private-between-friends, or private-between-anyone on the internet, or anything else. If you don't like that, you don't have to buy my chairs! -- http://james.cridland.net/
