>From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: DMCA Takedown (was Stolen Photos) >Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0600 > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tom C" >Subject: Re: DMCA Takedown (was Stolen Photos) > > > > Until the goverment would pay me for doing their law enforcement I > > wouldn't > > worry about it. It's a different matter for selling tobacco or alcohol >to > > minors. > >How is refusing to sell tobacco or alcohol to minors not enforcing the law? > >William Robb >
It's a different matter in that 1) the seriousness of the offense is likely higher from a societal standpoint and 2) the likelihood of getting caught and punished for a violation is far higher. It is enforcing the law, and in that respect is no different... Well thinking more about it, one can view it in two different ways. Enforcement from the minor's standpoint and obeying the law which makes it illegal for the store owner and salesperson to sell. I'm not suggesting that a lab owner or worker should not be aware of the issue or somewhat concerned. I'm more or less suggesting (if I know what I'm trying to say) that *strict and rigid* adherence to the letter of the law would likely make the lab and it's employees unproductive as well as less likeable. It's a crime to steal personal property, but Costco and other mass market photo finishers set a customer's copyrighted material out in an unmonitored bin after processing it, for the convenience of both the store and the customer, allowing anyone to walk by and pickup someone else's photos. 1. Most "photographers" wouldn't take serious work there to begin with. 2. However, if the lab had the responsibiliy to protect copyrighted material from being copied, what about protecting the original copyrighted work itself from being pilfered or misapproriated? I'm saying that common sense factors in here somewhere. Traffic police who ARE law enforcement don't look for and don't stop each and every violator. They deliberately ignore some and forgive others. It may be that they are on their way to jelly donuts and coffee, or that they are not robots but simply humans, as I suspect most lab employees are (simply human). Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
