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I am sorry DrMoze but I am 100% right. I may be illegal according to enforced law but I am still RIGHT.
Right and Legal are not the same thing. Sadly the law stopped following right and wrong a long time ago.
I am right but illegal the law is wrong but legal.
When our representatives refuse to listen to our will the only thing a citizen can do is defy the law.
Our founding fathers are traitors. Indisputable Fact. what they did was still RIGHT. see what I mean?
ALL I can do is try to balance my morals as best I can. the law "will not" define my morals.
I will defy any attempt otherwise. Off course they can compel me with force and as is my duty as a US citizen I will resist with as much energy as I can.
Its all I can do. WE define the law not the other way around. When the LAW conflicts with the Citizens THE LAW CHANGES not the citizens. More and more people seem to forget this. :-(
NO harry I never said it was legal. but from a moral perspective I see no difference between downloading a book and reading it and getting it out of the library and reading it. Any difference is semantic only. Only the medium is changed.
Most of the books I download and then buy (I say almost because I can not be sure so far its seems to be 100%) are UNAVAILABLE new. I have to find used copies on ebay or amazon.
Which explain why I downloaded first. Since they do not appear to exist in my book stores I never "find" then till I "find" it online and go HEY thats good. I would NEVER likely otherwise have encountered that book in any form.
I am the kind of person who Downloaded an album of "move" (Japanese Band) and went so far as to finagling my way through a japanese website to "order" the cd for $26 from japan. (I had to actually load the source code for the HTML so I could figure out what fields I had to fill in and what buttons to press since the page was in japanese but the CODE is in english :-)
I am the kind of person who can download Move's second album anytime I want but have NOT done so in 2 years and never will because I KNOW I will never BUY the CD (there Second CD is copy protected and I refuse to honor such purchases) so it would be morally wrong to download a CD I know I will never buy. I suffer without that CD of a band I love so much but its the morally right thing to do.
ANY Idea what those 5 copies of XP cost me!! not cheap! but it was the MORALLY right thing to do.
Back to the read and then buy. People do this everyday when they read a friends book or borrow it from the library. Are they criminals if they do not buy it after reading it? then why am I for downloading it regardless if I buy it or not?
I do not buy it because I have to. I buy because its the right thing to do and I want to REWARD the author. Many times if I have to buy a used copy I will goto the bookstore and BUY another book of theres if available just because it might be good and I know they get nothing from used book sales.
Its just the way I am. THE LAW needs to change. NOT ME.
as far as I am concerned even according to LAW DRM is illegal. I consider it to be a direct violation of my 4th amendment rights to prevention of illegal seizure.
The 4th applies to congress the 9th and 13th IIRC apply this to the states. Corporations as entities of the state are therfore also compelled to comply. (thats the way I see it)
BY applying DRM they are SEIZING my property.
Just ask the google video folks who BOUGHT videos from google and who are now having those PURCHASED videos SEIZED since google is shutting down (at which time the videos will stop working) I do not want $2 coupons I want my video (I never bought any)
I would sue google for "theft" and violation of the 4th amendment. I would lose but I would do it anyway because its the RIGHT thing to do.
I would also not hire a lawyer and NOT pay any court fees since the constitution states it is my RIGHT to redress of grievances NO where does it say only to those who can pay.
People need to start standing up for there RIGHTS and what IS right.
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