Yes that's the point. And this is the classic argument of free where abanden where. Which is why I would seriously air on the erge of causion with regards to sharing software.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 20 October 2007 08:04 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Web site with audio games? Hi Darren, What you are talking about is called intellectual property rights. In the Communist view everything should be communal property, and there is no such thing as individual property or wealth. It is a popular idea, especially in the open source movement, that believe software development should be free and source code should be available to everyone. Allot of folks on say the Blind Movie Buffs and the Lost in the Stacks lists have no quoms about sharing audio books, described movies, and some software. We have to ask ourselves a hard question. Just because they believe or think it should be ok to share those things, they justify it 101 ways and twice on sunday, does it really make it right? The fact is most of us here don't live in a communist society, and we live in a capitalist society. The rules of a capitalist society is that whatever you want you have to pay for it, you have to enter into legal agreements, and we have individual and company property. Believe it or not when you buy the latest Harry Potter book you are paying for the right to read it, and not the right to own it. You can't simply copy it page for page and share it around, copy the disks, because you have pirated it from the publisher and the author. Did you know when you buy software from Microsoft it is there legal opinion you have purchased the right to use the software only. You do not have the right to "physically own that software. That is why they are going with product activation etc. They are in a sense trying to make it so they totally control weather or not you have the right to use the software, and if they find out you hacked, cracked, pirated, or done any other license violation they revoke your online activation and black list your product key. Anyway, getting back to the point of this long message is that generally laws state that software belongs to the owner or parent company that created it unless expressed in writing. We can't simply pass around music, software, books, just because we believe that makes us have the right for reason x. We can intellectualize the matter 100001 ways, but you run the risk of coming up against the laws intellectualworld view on the matter. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.3/1081 - Release Date: 19/10/2007 17:41 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
