On 9/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is incredible....I can't believe Pirate Bay is doing what they are doing.
I don't quite understand it either. People who cheer the GNU GPL are cheering for copyright protection too. Setting aside the DMCA, DRM, lawyers, and other really obnoxious MPAA & RIAA behaviours, isn't dling content still unethical behavior? If I politely ask you to choose between paying for an entertainment service, or doing without, wouldn't ethics demand you abide by my simple request? Is it okay to sneak into the baseball park or should you have to buy a ticket like everyone else? If you release a program under GPL, and somebody else "pirates" it, aren't you going to get upset? (and by pirate, I mean copy it and release only a binary) If I think watching Cars is overpriced, can't I just choose to do without? This definitely doesn't count as stealing bread to survive, does it? My only problem with BigMedia is that they're insisting that Copyright last forever when clearly it shouldn't. Eventually it needs to go into the public domain. But I don't necessarily think that needs to be the very day it hits the big screen. Oh, and yeah... the US doesn't get to dictate the law everywhere on the planet either, but I don't mind content owners taking true, and deliberate thieves to task (to a reasonable level... obviously not hundreds of thousands of dollars). -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
