The VCR would be today's internet connected device, and the 'rogue site' would be like a video store that was providing it's customers access to pirated tapes.
Close, but not quite. I'd change it to:
The VCR would be today's internet connected device, and the 'rogue site' would be like the Yellow Pages which listed the address of a flea market where some of the tapes sold by some of the vendors were pirated copies.
(With the implication being that the flea market should be shut down if it doesn't have the resources to affirmatively comb through the inventories of the millions of merchants that set up tables there daily, and that the Yellow Pages are criminally complicit if they don't de-list the flea market from their directory immediately.)
Security rules require firearms to be in a locked case. You even have to declare them at the ticket counter so they can give you a little piece of paper to put with it so the baggage screeners know what's going on.
Loaded and bouncing around in a duffel bag? Fail by all parties.
OK. How about it ain't the guy downloading copyrighted work for free without authorization of the rightsholder?
Trivially true, because content itself has no "rightful owner".
If you are the rightful owner of a hard drive, you have a property interest in the current configuration of that hard drive. That doesn't extend to other people's hard drives, however, which is where I think our opinions part ways.
Wy do you think you are entitled to receive something of value without compensating the rightful owner?
First, we'd have to agree on who is the "rightful owner" of content (which we don't), and even then "entitled" is not the right word, since I don't think anyone is obligated to let me copy anything.
"Well, if you don't like it, don't fly!"
"Well, if you don't like it, don't take the train!"
"Well, if you don't like it, don't ride the bus!"
"Well, if you don't like it, don't drive your car!"
Next up:
"Well, if you don't like it, don't walk in public!"
You don't think for a second that someone like Chris Brown isn't happy to have his music in front of 35 million viewers?
So you think that whether Bieber deserves 5 years in prison or not depends on a thumbs-up or thumbs-down vote from Chris Brown, and that such a system is okay because "Chris Brown probably wouldn't do that"?
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The VCR would be today's internet connected device, and the 'rogue site' would be like the Yellow Pages which listed the address of a flea market where some of the tapes sold by some of the vendors were pirated copies.
(With the implication being that the flea market should be shut down if it doesn't have the resources to affirmatively comb through the inventories of the millions of merchants that set up tables there daily, and that the Yellow Pages are criminally complicit if they don't de-list the flea market from their directory immediately.)
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Firearm Transportation
Loaded and bouncing around in a duffel bag? Fail by all parties.
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Fantastic
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No. Just no.
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Re: "not bound by traditional legal constraints" -- Barbarians, then.
Troll harder.
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Re: Until you spoiled it in the last paragraph,
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If you are the rightful owner of a hard drive, you have a property interest in the current configuration of that hard drive. That doesn't extend to other people's hard drives, however, which is where I think our opinions part ways.
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But if someone offers, I'm there.
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Haha
COME AT ME BRO!
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The Progression
"Well, if you don't like it, don't take the train!"
"Well, if you don't like it, don't ride the bus!"
"Well, if you don't like it, don't drive your car!"
Next up:
"Well, if you don't like it, don't walk in public!"
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[Citation Needed]
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Yeah, that's a good system to support.
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Don't Worry
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