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Originally Posted by kennyc
Wrong. I have not authorized you to have my property or do anything with it, I have lost my rights. You can't say I have not been harmed. It is not your right to posses my property without my permission.
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There are four inaccuracies in that statement
1. I, don’t require your permission.
2. No you haven’t.
3. Yes I can.
4. Information has rights too — it wants to be free.
Btw, having been granted a (temporary) monopoly does not mean that you have been awarded ownership rights too, Your so-called ‘property right’ (you really mean ownership) remains firmly in the public domain.
From a philosophical point of view, are you saying that every single monopoly holder in existence is now living under a constant barrage of actual mental harm caused by file-sharing? You can’t be referring to any physical or material harm — because I already don’t need your permission to read a library book, read a friends book or find a secondhand one.
No wonder authors tend to loose their marbles the more books they write
The sheer pressure of not knowing with 100% certainty that their books are NOT being shared must indeed be a meddlesome burden to have to live under. Perhaps every monopoly licence should come with a health warning on the box!
On the other hand, If I don’t explicitly TELL you that I have indeed shared YOUR particular book, how does this imaginary ‘harm’ manifest itself in your mind? Your ‘right’, to your own knowledge, has not been disturbed. You remain, as it were, still living in a state of serene and blissful ignorance of my (real or imaginary) dastardly deed — so how has any ‘action at a distance’ on my part impinged on the mental map of your world?