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Excellent proposition | 2 | 4.76% | |
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07-11-2008, 07:39 AM | #46 | |
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There, corrected that one for you! |
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07-11-2008, 07:45 AM | #47 |
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All that said and and done, the law is far from having come into being, yet.
What has happened is that the Commission has voted it - proving once again that only big business interests have its ear. It still needs to be approved by the parliament, and that vote will take place in September. If you're a EU citizen, time to bug your MP. |
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07-11-2008, 07:53 AM | #48 | |
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Do you have a problem with the basic concept of people being punished for breaking the law? |
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07-11-2008, 08:44 AM | #49 |
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An "unjust law" is a contradiction in terms. "Justice" is the state which prevails when all laws are perfectly enforced.
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07-11-2008, 08:55 AM | #53 |
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(Sticks head in door and peers around)
"Nuh-uh, dawg. I'm not going in there!" (Slam!) |
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You didn't catch the literary reference. That was a quote from Azimov's "The Caves of Steel", when Detective Baley asks R. Daneel Olivaw how a robot can administer justice.
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07-11-2008, 09:25 AM | #56 |
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Of course, this only becomes true for definitions of "justice" which match that of, say, OED. And it also ignores the fact that one can have 'perfect' enforcement without having 'justice'. (Perfect enforcement implies no one breaks the law, not that the law is just.) Derek |
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07-11-2008, 11:08 AM | #58 | |
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It seems to me that if the legal process is too expensive for small authors/businesses, that's the problem that needs to be addressed, not removing the legal process from the equation. |
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07-11-2008, 12:23 PM | #59 | |
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And that's the only reason why the guy who stole my car is still alive. Think from another POV: what if you are strongly suspected to have stolen a mafia boss's "copyrighted material" and he knows your name and address? It's not the criminal who hides behind anonymity it's the presumed one. After the verdict his name is public. |
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