begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:13:26PM -0800: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:10:18AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > Well how would you propose to enforce copyrights then? > > > > Law. > > We got laws already. They aren't working.
Sure they are. Napster got shut down. Laws don't make crime go away. > So then we got more laws like > DMCA. They aren't working. Now we're likely to get more nastly laws. Thats because the new laws are an attempt to do something for free. I don't agree that they're a good idea. Don't put the DMCA on _my_ plate, I won't take it, and it's dirty pool for you to try. > You haven't convinced me yet why the cure (copyright enforcement) is not worse > than the disease (sharing) here yet. I didn't start this thread. You did. You're the one with the burden of proof. You haven't even shown that the appropriate response to abuse is to abolish the system is a good idea, yet. > > > for why you think BSD/APL/MIT/X11 licensed software > > > developers aren't a counter-argument to this assertion. Why would Apache > > > & > > > OpenBSD developers lose ALL their motivation tomorrow if copyright was > > > abolished? > > > > Tomorrow? No. In three years? Quite possibly. > > Buy *why*? What would Apache, OpenBSD and X.org developers lose if copyright > was gone tomorrow? Credit. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
