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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because that's a much more straightforward issue. Do you really think that the two can be equated?
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i certainly do NOT think that filesharing and torture can be equated, obviously ; but the original context shows that i was in fact questioning your position that "the end justifies the means" which is also often used to justify torture, and the fact that you refuse to admit that the law we've been discussing might in fact be strongly deleterious to basic civil liberties to a degree which most people find unacceptable, PARTICULARLY when the pretext for it is something so arguably trivial as filesharing. i'll add that having read several articles on the subject lately including
by Tim O'Reilly i'm discovering that the issue is significantly more nuanced than you seem to want to believe.