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Originally Posted by FacebookVirus
I legally purchase a knife, therefore I have the right to use it however I want in the privacy of my own home.
Fair use isn't equivalent to murder although to hear some speak of pirating - which many think is the same - it isn't much different. But the "in my own home" argument doesn't go very far.
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Yeah, I did that whole thing where I figured people reading about DRM, copyright and fair use would just assume stuff like "so long as it doesn't involve stabbing people in the chest/making terrorist bombs/constructing a hideous plague virus to destroy the world".
To try to come up with a useful analogy: say, people who are chatting about backyard chicken ordinances and their wish to raise a small flock for eggs with unreasonable council imposition. Within the scope of that conversation, they usually just assume that when they're talking about the right to produce their own food on their own property, that they're not about to, I don't know, use their chickens to culture a new strain of salmonella and deliberately infest the town water supply with it. Or freeze sharpened drumsticks into stabbing implements. Or... I dunno. I give up. Use your common sense.