Shlomi, It's not a matter of if in your ideal imaginary world such thing should be legal, and one person who bought a copy of a book/cd/dvd/software/whatever could redistribute it (with, or without payment) to the whole wide world. In the real world, redistributing copyrighted materiel without approval is ILLEGAL, it doesn't matter if the term for it is "stealing" or anything else - it would still make you a CRIMINAL. if you do that, why would anyone pay for it? The whole economic system would collapse, and millions will lose their jobs, and the ability to buy food. In the bottom line, Shlomi, you are trying to find excuses for being a cheap-ass, who is trying to avoid paying for your pleasures. This is the law, and this is our economic system, deal with it.
This thread is the most idiotic thread ever seen on this list - don't you people have better topics to discuss? -- Imri Zvik PGP (2.6.3ia) Public Key: http://mariska.inter.net.il/~imriz/imriz.pgp -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shlomi Fish Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:05 PM To: Uri Bruck Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel On Tuesday 24 May 2005 23:54, Uri Bruck wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > do you think it is desirable to enforce a law that prevents people from > > ripping a CD/eBook/DVD/whatever and sharing it online? Do you think it > > would be practical? Do you think that it is a crime to do that? > > > > Technology advances, and law and philosophy must advance with it. > > > > Just for the record, I'll re-iterate a story that RMS likes to tell. He > > said that when he was in elementary school his teacher encouraged the > > class to share their candies with their friends. And today, it is the > > opposite: "No Tommy, don't share your software/music/video/whatever. It's > > illegal." > > You're missing a big point here Shlomi. You can share your > software/music/video/whatever, but what I create isn't yours, it's mine, > and it's up to me how it should be distributed and shared. The copyrights to the work you create are yours. The copy of the work is mine. When children (or teenagers, or adults) make copies of CDs/DVDs/mp3s/etc. they do it so they can share these copies along with their friends. They don't see nothing wrong with it. Don't you think it may be an indication that there _isn't_ something wrong with it. Are you approving of teachers telling the school children to "Do not share your music with the other children. Copying copyrighted work is wrong!"? According to RMS, the belief that sharing anything is wrong causes great damages to society because it makes people more reluctant to sharing. When copyright law was formulated there were no means to easily, quickly and efficiently copy content. But even when some of them were introduced (Xerox machines, Betamax/VHS tapes, Audio Cassettes, etc.) the general belief was that it is OK to make copies of your artwork to your friends. (at least at little or no cost). Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of paragraphs. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
