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DawnFalcon · 03-02-2010, 11:14 AM

dmaul11!4-

Your "key" is the one to the door called "IP should be abolished". Step away and put the key down. By conflating completely inequivalent offences - theft is allways wrong, making a copy is necessary for the operation of computers and is often otherwise fair use, and is wrong only in certain situations you're being your own worst enemy as far as copyright goes.

Moreover, there is no appetite outside America and a few corporate boardrooms for labeling major parts of the community as criminals.

Respecting rights and sensible prices - and not worrying about a fringe movement - has proven the only effective antidote to darknets so far.

pdurrant - Equally, in the UK they're simply un-prosecutable. It's not in the public interest to chase those cases. Of course, the music industry is generously trying to use that as a starting base for negotiations, giving us the right to do what they already cannot act on rather than with the de-facto situation (i.e. they're trying to make out they're already making effective concessions, when they're not...)

03-02-2010, 11:14 AM	#27
DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	dmaul11!4- Your "key" is the one to the door called "IP should be abolished". Step away and put the key down. By conflating completely inequivalent offences - theft is allways wrong, making a copy is necessary for the operation of computers and is often otherwise fair use, and is wrong only in certain situations you're being your own worst enemy as far as copyright goes. Moreover, there is no appetite outside America and a few corporate boardrooms for labeling major parts of the community as criminals. Respecting rights and sensible prices - and not worrying about a fringe movement - has proven the only effective antidote to darknets so far. pdurrant - Equally, in the UK they're simply un-prosecutable. It's not in the public interest to chase those cases. Of course, the music industry is generously trying to use that as a starting base for negotiations, giving us the right to do what they already cannot act on rather than with the de-facto situation (i.e. they're trying to make out they're already making effective concessions, when they're not...) Last edited by DawnFalcon; 03-02-2010 at 11:17 AM.