RE: [backstage] From the front lines... Defective By Design Protest

[Andrew Bowden]

 



        On 15/08/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

                
                
                
                If a drinks company is giving away a can of drink free
at a railway station (which happens), does that entitle you to go into
Sainsburys and take one without paying for it?

        

        No, that would be stealing, I would be depriving the original
owners of a can of drink, What I would do isn't stealing, no one loses
anything, or are you one of those people who wilfully spreads the
misconception that copyright infringement = theft? 
        If you are, well it doesn't. One deprives someone of a tangeable
object, that actually costs something to distribute, the other is data
that can, and is, being distributed virtually for free.  

My point is nothing but simple.  Just because it can be done one way,
doesn't mean it should.  That's all.
 
The general population have an interesting respect laws and rules -
demand complete and total implementation of the ones they really like,
whilst ignoring the ones they don't.  You only have to look at how many
people break the speed limit to see that.
 
That's all I'm going to stay.  There is no point in even debating the
subject - you have your view and you're clearly right.  And that's that.