On AD 2006 October 23 Monday 01:34:29 AM -0600, Steven H. McCown wrote: > I guess they feel that they are losing money to the "internet culture" and > that they need to re-educate people that it is wrong to steal. While 30 > years ago, truly honest people would never have dared photocopy a book (even > if it was free and instantaneous), the "internet culture" has changed that > mindset. This new culture has given us other 'experts' such as Napster, > torrents, etc. that make it technologically easy to do what once was > considered wrong by the mainstream.
I don't think the whole issue here is to steal or not to steal. The issue is also the abuse of copyright law and changes made to copyright law that harm the public domain and the original intent of copyright. I think the movie studios want to redefine the debate in terms of "stealing" and "pirating" to cover up their own nefarious law changing tactics, the produce of pork dealing senators, with a rhetoric that smacks of a sinister propaganda just so they can incriminate (filesharing) and cripple (DRM) new technology that *should* have been beneficial to society. I don't believe that you can't make money in movies without DRM and DCMA, not for a single instant. Copyright is no longer a fair deal. Lifetime plus copyright terms only enshrine "content" into a staple income supporting entities that are too lazy to figure out a real livelihood. The ironic effect is that those who demand and get greater and greater control over their creations will successfully cut themselves off from culture and posterity by their legal and technical protections. Justin _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
