Then how come none of the bittorrent, RIAA, etc lawsuits are charging anyone with stealing?
And I'd argue that the injustice occurs on the public's right to copy... We can go back and forth on this, maybe I just have loose morals. Anyone want to start a decriminalizing drugs thread while we're at it? On 7/6/05, Hayes Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> > >To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., > >et al. > >Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:48:40 -0300 > > > >At 01:42 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: > > > >>That's what demo software is for. Fully working demo software is available > >>for just about any kind of app today. These days, acquiring a pirated > >>version is growing harder to legitimize with the try-before-buy defense. > > > >Except that the demos I've tried are often either crippled or buggy. Often > >it's like taking a test drive in the same model car, but from a previous > >year. > > > >Anyway, my point was just that you were using the term "injustice" > >incorrectly. I don't really care about your opinion on actual P2P - unless > >you have some new arguments pro or con, which I doubt, because I think > >they've all been hashed out to death. > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=injustice > > in·jus·tice n. > Violation of another's rights or of what is right; lack of justice. > A specific unjust act; a wrong. > > Last I checked, stealing is wrong and stealing a pirated work is a violation > of another's rights. > > > -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
