You can't bring up morality until we've settled on the morality of continuous extensions of copyright length so that that it now lasts two lifetimes and has locked up a whole century of culture.
You can't bring up morality until you we've settled on how Hollywood and the music business cooks the books and doesn't pay out royalties they way they should.
The laws must command respect and businesses must behave respectably before you can start talking about the morality of what some kid does with a video camera in a movie theatre.
If you think he deserves jail, then there's a lot more immoral people that need to be behind bars.
The article isn't about whether someone did something wrong or not. It's about the extreme punishment for a minor offence based on lousy laws dictated by a private company.
It's because so many people are gullible to Hollywood's marketing machine that they feel extra special if they can see a movie before anyone else, even if the movie hits DVD in three months.
he expects the public to have respect for law enforcement while officers show an active disrespect for the laws governing their behavior.
This is the crux of it. If the police want respect, they need to obey the law, and not individually but as a force. No cop should let another cop get away with doing anything illegal. One bad apple spoils everything.
The police telling people not to record them is just going to make them want to record things even more because it's legal to do that. So yeah, suddenly there are going to be cameras everywhere.
When I first realized that the internet was actually the world's biggest library, and that in the future anything and everything ever created would be available to everyone in the world, stopped only by this little thing called copyright, it was Techdirt that thoroughly explained the problems of our changing media world and especially the problems in copyright.
Copyright was something that I - and probably most people - never gave much thought about before the internet came along, even though I am a creator and applied copyright to my work. Thanks to Techdirt, I've become a copyright reformer, but I don't really share Techdirt that much except on Reddit, unless something happens that so perfectly exemplefies the corruption or stupidity or damage that our laws enable.
Of course, there are a lot of other websites that cover these same issues, and the reason I favor Techdirt is because of the discussion after the article. The comments are usually informative, often controversial, sometimes frustrating, and it's fun to jump in and make a point (or a lame joke) and participate in this discussion.
Because as you know, issues like copyright and government surveillance and the like are all things that the people in charge don't want the public talking about. I hope Techdirt is a thorn in their side.
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You can't bring up morality until you we've settled on how Hollywood and the music business cooks the books and doesn't pay out royalties they way they should.
The laws must command respect and businesses must behave respectably before you can start talking about the morality of what some kid does with a video camera in a movie theatre.
If you think he deserves jail, then there's a lot more immoral people that need to be behind bars.
The article isn't about whether someone did something wrong or not. It's about the extreme punishment for a minor offence based on lousy laws dictated by a private company.
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This is the crux of it. If the police want respect, they need to obey the law, and not individually but as a force. No cop should let another cop get away with doing anything illegal. One bad apple spoils everything.
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What they hated was our bullying and meddling in world affairs - playing world police and trying to mold other countries for our benefit.
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Copyright was something that I - and probably most people - never gave much thought about before the internet came along, even though I am a creator and applied copyright to my work. Thanks to Techdirt, I've become a copyright reformer, but I don't really share Techdirt that much except on Reddit, unless something happens that so perfectly exemplefies the corruption or stupidity or damage that our laws enable.
Of course, there are a lot of other websites that cover these same issues, and the reason I favor Techdirt is because of the discussion after the article. The comments are usually informative, often controversial, sometimes frustrating, and it's fun to jump in and make a point (or a lame joke) and participate in this discussion.
Because as you know, issues like copyright and government surveillance and the like are all things that the people in charge don't want the public talking about. I hope Techdirt is a thorn in their side.
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