The fact remains, however, that the law, whether you like it or not, confers rights upon persons such as this lady, and it is the height or arrogance for persons who are not the rights holder to say "My right, which is not sanctioned by law, is more important than your right, which is sanctioned by law."
I'd like to quote a great line that a commenter once posted on this very site...and sorry I don't know who to attribute it to:
"Just because some senile, fat, bribed-to-hell-and-back men wrote it on a piece of paper and sat around and nodded at each other does not make it right, moral, ethical, or even
logical."
Only a coward blindly follows laws which he holds moral opposition to.
And for the record? I don't engage in file-sharing. I do just what you said...I take my business elsewhere. That should make me no better or no worse than the "pirates," since neither of us pay these greedy, entitled copywhiners.
"It's the foundation of all of the mistakes that the P2P lovers make when they assume that the content will just continue to appear because it's infinite. It won't. "
It's the foundation of all of the mistakes that the pro-copyright crowd makes when they assume that content didn't exist before copyright. It did.
"We're seeing a partial collapse of the news arena, just as we see collapses in other commons."
Let me guess...piracy is to blame?
"The market for independent films has pretty much disappeared"
Since when?
"and Hollywood is largely devoted to making films that play well on the big screen with 3D glasses where they can still use the theater owners to enforce some semblance of a rule of law, the kind you quaintly refer to as an 'artificial scarcity.'"
Hollywood is going where the money is, just as they always do.
You make it sound like Hollywood has been "gutted" by "piracy," and 3D movies are a last ditch effort to make *some* money from those greedy, nasty pirates. The only problem is that Hollywood's revenues have freaking EXPLODED over the past decade. They're making money hand over fist, by producing what people want to see. Problem? I don't see one.
"Game companies are abandoning the PC platform and embracing the consoles where they have some chance to fight piracy."
No. Game developers have embraced consoles because CONSUMERS have embraced consoles. And the reasons for that, mainly, are that console technology has nearly overtaken PC technology (consoles now are effectively mini-PCs), and also that consoles don't have to be "tweaked" to run the games.
Remember: Developers don't pick the market, consumers do. Developers go where THEY go. And they're going more and more to consoles.
"Go on believing the crazy theories about infinite goods you learned when you got your good grades studying with the professors who love to dream along too. But wait until the kids discover that the knowledge is free on the Internet and they don't have to pay $200,000 for that big diploma."
Funny, I'm one of those who didn't bother with college knowing that knowledge can be obtained anywhere, and am better off for it. Keep your degree, I have no use for it.
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I'd like to quote a great line that a commenter once posted on this very site...and sorry I don't know who to attribute it to:
"Just because some senile, fat, bribed-to-hell-and-back men wrote it on a piece of paper and sat around and nodded at each other does not make it right, moral, ethical, or even
logical."
Only a coward blindly follows laws which he holds moral opposition to.
And for the record? I don't engage in file-sharing. I do just what you said...I take my business elsewhere. That should make me no better or no worse than the "pirates," since neither of us pay these greedy, entitled copywhiners.
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Re: Re: Re: Infinite goods?
It's the foundation of all of the mistakes that the pro-copyright crowd makes when they assume that content didn't exist before copyright. It did.
"We're seeing a partial collapse of the news arena, just as we see collapses in other commons."
Let me guess...piracy is to blame?
"The market for independent films has pretty much disappeared"
Since when?
"and Hollywood is largely devoted to making films that play well on the big screen with 3D glasses where they can still use the theater owners to enforce some semblance of a rule of law, the kind you quaintly refer to as an 'artificial scarcity.'"
Hollywood is going where the money is, just as they always do.
You make it sound like Hollywood has been "gutted" by "piracy," and 3D movies are a last ditch effort to make *some* money from those greedy, nasty pirates. The only problem is that Hollywood's revenues have freaking EXPLODED over the past decade. They're making money hand over fist, by producing what people want to see. Problem? I don't see one.
"Game companies are abandoning the PC platform and embracing the consoles where they have some chance to fight piracy."
No. Game developers have embraced consoles because CONSUMERS have embraced consoles. And the reasons for that, mainly, are that console technology has nearly overtaken PC technology (consoles now are effectively mini-PCs), and also that consoles don't have to be "tweaked" to run the games.
Remember: Developers don't pick the market, consumers do. Developers go where THEY go. And they're going more and more to consoles.
"Go on believing the crazy theories about infinite goods you learned when you got your good grades studying with the professors who love to dream along too. But wait until the kids discover that the knowledge is free on the Internet and they don't have to pay $200,000 for that big diploma."
Funny, I'm one of those who didn't bother with college knowing that knowledge can be obtained anywhere, and am better off for it. Keep your degree, I have no use for it.
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Do people seriously not get a freaking JOKE?
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