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Originally Posted by kennyc
Oh and Piper. It this has EVERYTHING to do with rights. The rights of the one who creates the work and the rights of the publisher. The consumer has some rights but not to demand the things you and dog seems to be claiming.
The product belongs to the publisher. They get to decide what to offer to the consumer. If the consumer doesn't like the terms they can choose to go elsewhere, but that does not give them the right to break the law.
See how it really is all about rights? Copyrights and other rights.
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I'm sorry, Kenny, but none of that justifies your accusing that poster of saying publishers don't have a
right to do what they do and that people have a
right to pirate, when he wasn't talking about
rights at all.
He, and some other people are simply posting the equivalent of saying that, if I want to reduce my odds of being molested, I should avoid traipsing through dangerous streets every night, armed with nothing other than my diamonds, pearls, and bikini straps.
Their saying so is just good advice, isn't it? It does not mean they don't think I have the
right to walk there in such a manner without being assaulted or that anyone has a
right to assault me.
But if I keep responding by accusing them of not caring about my rights, and all I do is to complain about bad the bad guys are and how I have the right to walk there however I choose, yadda, well, people are gonna lose a lot of sympathy for me.
Yes, some people
are rationalizing and blowing off other's rights. But you aren't going to be able to stop them completely, and it won't help to polarize everyone into good guys vs criminals, and you for sure won't win those in the middle by treating them disrespectfully.
