I may not be Mike but I will gladly answer this on my own behalf.
a) do the copyright laws violate the first amendment?
b) is downloading copyright material without a license legal?
c) is helping people to break the law an offence?
A) Possibly, they are unquestionably in conflict with the first amendment, especially considering the ridiculousness of 70+ years. Dial the length back reasonable level (i.e 15-20 years MAX) and with protected fair use exceptions, the conflict can be minimized.
B)NO it is not (currently) legal. (And for the record I have never seen any article on this site or regular commentator on this site say that it is.) HOWEVER it is not necessarily immoral, and most importantly it is a CIVIL matter, downloading copyright(ed) material without a license in and of itself should not EVER be considered a criminal matter.
C) More information required. That question is meaningless without context.
"whine whine whine" is what Anonymous Coward's are famous for! Nothing productive is said, only a lot of talk and dis-respect, all talk and NO real action (like providing real evidence) but oh...that's just too hard so we'll just whine and complain and disrespect...
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HAHAHAHA... That's Funny!
... Oh wait, you meant that? WTF?
Floyd Abrams = Paid MAFIAA Shill
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B)NO it is not (currently) legal. (And for the record I have never seen any article on this site or regular commentator on this site say that it is.) HOWEVER it is not necessarily immoral, and most importantly it is a CIVIL matter, downloading copyright(ed) material without a license in and of itself should not EVER be considered a criminal matter.
C) More information required. That question is meaningless without context.
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The ability to use the s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶-̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ tag in comments would be nice...
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FTFY
Please DNFTT
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Thanks!
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Please take (and PASS) Econ 101, Then Reroll before commenting further.
Have A Nice Day!
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There FTFY
The value to the public of your artificial monopoly is gone, adapt or die, your choice.
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WTH?
That triggered the spam filter?
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/Facepalm
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{Repost}{/Repost}
Need I say more?
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Senator Ron Wyden
... Seriously it is nice to have a decently intelligent senator ...
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This is fairly well proven as part of the theoretical basis for quantum physics.
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^THIS!
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