Funny you mention the constitution since copyright is an *optional* power given to congress and not a rule goverment must follow like not passing laws regarding relegion.
And it mandates that any copyrights/patents are only granted for limited times. It's clearly intended that works become freely copyable at some point and not some inalienable moral property right.
Yep, the Constitution gives Congress the power to create copyright laws. And Congress did so right at the very start and we've had federal copyright laws for about 225 years. And before that, the states had their own copyright laws. I never said it's an inalienable moral right. I've always been perfectly clear that it's a statutory right. Nonetheless, it is a right and it is to be respected as someone's right. I don't believe in moral rights or natural rights or any of that stuff. I look at only one thing: Do they have the right, or do they not? I'm a simple person.
If you're asking me (I can't conveniently view this in threaded view any longer), then I don't know. Telling people what business model to use is not what I do. Nor do I care to. I'm interested in the law and theory of copyright. I leave the business stuff to the folks who do business stuff.
LOL! Try Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. Does it use the word "copyright"? No. Does it directly and by express design give Congress the power to enact copyright laws? Yes.
Not a good argument, Leigh. You're really grasping on that one.
1. Do you agree that if someone violates your rights, then that someone has acted immorally? If not, then which of your rights is it moral to violate?
2. Do you agree that Techdirt is about A LOT more than just helping artists out in the digital age? Do you agree that Techdirt has thrust itself into the copyright wars?
Funny thing is, some of the rights that we value the most are arbitrary. I'm thinking of the implied fundamental liberty rights that the Supreme Court has identified in its line of substantive due process cases. These are fundamental rights like the right to marry and the right to privacy. Talk about arbitrary. One word in the Constitution, "liberty," has been interpreted to imply a host of fundamental rights.
But copyright is anything but arbitrary. It's mentioned in the Constitution directly, and then Congress has spelled it out explicitly in the Copyright Act. It's anything but arbitrary.
See, violating my "rights" isn't a big deal if I'm not actually harmed. "Rights" should only be a hard and fast rule when there is harm involved.
So if I decide that you aren't really harmed, can I violate your rights? And what if the harm is indirect and hard to prove? Does that mean I'm doubly justified to just violate away? Just because you don't see the harm doesn't mean that you get to unilaterally decide that someone else's rights are properly violated. What makes you the arbiter of other people's harms? It doesn't work that way. This is basic Being a Human Being 101 stuff. I know the Gospel according to Masnick doesn't teach this stuff, but even children know it's wrong to violate other people's rights--even if the harm isn't readily apparent. Or even if there's no harm at all. If I trespass across your yard, you can sue me for nominal damages, even if I cause no actual harm. That's how property rights work.
Very kind of you to tip your head to their legitimacy for once -- and yet, you refuse to actually talk about them. Instead, you hijack every post into an argument about the morals of piracy. You may notice that this is exactly my point here, and it's exactly what makes you a troll.
If you have a business model that works for some people. Great. Good for you and good for them. It's the expecting that everyone else should use your alternative models where the problem begins. Prove to the world that your way is better. Nothing is stopping you from doing this. Copyright doesn't prohibit artists from giving their works away if they want to. If your way is better, others will follow. But until you get the world on your side, don't be so angry at the world for choosing a different path. And don't be angry at artists who choose to exercise their marketable right. And please stop pretending like the marketable right that copyright provides doesn't bring lots of great works into the world. It clearly does. Even most of the books that Techdirt uses in its book club are the product of the copyright business model. You guys can't even find more than a couple books published under your alternative models. That should tell you something about your models.
You really think being a victim is black and white? There are a lot of things to be a victim of, and I'd certainly choose some over others.
If a pirate chooses to violate someone's rights, then that someone is a victim. And only the pirate is to blame. Everything taught on Techdirt to the contrary is pirate-apologism. It's really that simple. I couldn't care less if you want to show people a route that you think is better. It's when you are so condescending and closed-minded to anyone that doesn't take your alternate route that the apologism kicks in. Techdirt is all about pirate-apologism. Day after day, post after post, copyright is torn to pieces and the virtues of piracy are defended and extolled. Rightholders who dare exercise their rights are mocked and belittled. Don't pretend even for one second that that's not the case. You can try and pretend like morality doesn't play into it, but the fact remains that Techdirt has taken the side of the pirates, and the pirates are amorally violating other people's rights. Considering the fact that you've chosen the amoral side of the argument, the fact that you don't want to talk about the morals isn't at all surprising.
Thing is, for morals to even be valid they must be respectable values. "ip" has failed this fundamental test.
It fails that test yet practically every nation on earth recognizes it and grants rights for it. You're living in a dream world that doesn't exist. You may not respect IP, but that's clearly not the majority view. And let me guess, you have no problem with deciding for themselves which rights are important and which are not. Am I right? Can I decide which of your rights are important and which ones I want to violate? This stuff isn't hard. If you read Techdirt too much you'll be spoonfed all sorts of apologist propaganda, but at the end of the day it comes down to whether you decide for yourself to violate the law and the violate other people's rights. Sadly, many of Mike's devout followers have no problem with deciding to violate other people's rights. Mike gives you guys all sorts of excuses to hang your hats on. That's his fundamental purpose in life, as far as I can tell.
Why do you put the word victim in scare quotes. If somebody is having their rights willfully and purposefully violated by another person, then they are a victim. You can try and spin it all you want, but it really is that black and white. Techdirt tries to gloss over this simple fact, but the fact remains. Don't get mad at me for pointing out the obvious.
Stop blaming the victims, and start blaming the only side that is to blame for piracy--the pirates. I'll win the moral every single time. That's why you guys don't want to have it. When you take works that are for sale without paying for them, you are hurting the victims and you are violating their rights. Just admit that much and start from there.
Are there other business models out there? Sure. If your alternative models are so great, more people would be using them. Maybe one day everyone will. But until then, stop pretending like people following the business model where they sell the product that other people value (crazy!) are actually doing anything wrong. They aren't. The only ones doing anything wrong are the ones that violate other people's rights. It's really that simple.
We're not here to preach morals and ethics at people. We're here to find practical solutions. Is that so hard for you to understand?
Clearly Techdirt does a lot more than just help people find practical solutions. Techdirt has clearly taken an extreme position in the copyright wars. There's article after article where anything pro-copyright is derided, where the victims of infringement are blamed for what the pirates consciously decide to do to them, where anybody who dares to say or think anything positive about copyright is torn to pieces, where the pirates who get caught are always defending to the bitter end no matter what, where even the thought of any new law changing copyright or providing rightholders with any kind of new enforcement mechanism is torn apart, etc.
For you to pretend that the only thing Techdirt does is help people find solutions is disingenuous. Techdirt is the go-to place for hardcore, extremist anti-copyright propaganda. Give me a break with the stupid "we're only trying to help people" argument. It's sad.
So trying to get you to see past the end of your nose is trollish and childish? Well excuse me for trying to bring reality to the conversation. The fact remains that Mike's view of copyright is extremely narrow and well, extreme. The fact that he refuses to ever discuss his personal beliefs directly is disconcerting. And labeling me pejoratively because I want to discuss the difficult stuff is sad. It seems that all you and Mike know how to do is ridicule those who don't take your extremist views.
We would be surprised, because you clearly don't understand lots, nor even simple things.
I read your first sentence and stopped reading. Insulting me gets you nowhere. If you want to try again with another post that doesn't start out with an insult, I'll gladly read your post.
But copyright doesn't seem to fall into that same realm. It is an entirely made up concept. In fact, in a time before copyright, the very idea that it's "wrong" to copy the content of someone else seems ludicrous, because *that was how culture worked*. People shared culture all the time. The only reason we *have* the stories of the ancient Greeks was because those stories were passed on from generation to generation via storytelling and sharing.
And yet practically every single country on earth has laws against copying. If it was so inherently evil to grant copyrights, why would all these countries do so? Because there's more to it that your oversimplified view of things. Culture has always and will always exist. Copyright adds to that culture as it incentivizes new works. I know you personally see copyright as antithetical to culture, but that is an extremist, minority view. The majority view on this planet is that not only do the two coexist, but they do so harmoniously. You tend to look at little slivers and claim that the system is broken. You need to look at the bigger picture, which includes society over a large number of years. But you never do that. I've seen you make arguments like "a teacher couldn't copy a textbook and give copies to all the students, therefore copyright is not serving its purpose to promote the progree." That argument is so narrow and so wrong, it hurts. Look at the bigger picture, which includes questioning things like whether that textbook would even exist in the first place if no one paid for it.
So to compare copyright to murder is simply clueless. One has nothing to do with the other. Most people do not murder because there is a law against murder. They do not murder for millions of other reasons.
The comparison was that if there weren't laws against murder, then people could murder as they please. And if there weren't laws against copying, then people could copy as they please. You can replace the word "murder" with pretty much anything that has a law against it. But to say that the laws against murder are somehow more real or important than the laws against copying doesn't hold up. It's because so many nations recognize the wisdom of granting authors exclusive rights that so many countries in fact do so. It's no more made up than any other right. And history has shown that without laws against murder, people would do it frighteningly more often.
And, really, that is the sole point that Leigh was trying to make, and which seems unfathomable to you: there are lots of reasons that people do things that have little to do with "it's the law!" And arguing from a position of "it's the law!" without being willing to actually comprehend what we're actually talking about just makes you look silly.
I'm pointing out that you can't just ignore all the unpleasant parts and pretend like Techdirt is only about helping artists survive in the Golden Age of Piracy. You and Techdirt do way more than that. You've obviously picked sides, and it's obviously with the pirates. You try and sweep all the moral stuff under the rug, and you downplay all the negative aspects of piracy. You demand that everyone only focus on the narrow issues you think are important. I'm merely pointing out the truth, the truth that you don't want anyone to think about, that there's bigger, broader things at play.
There are important conversations going on here, and you're diluting them (at this point I have to assume on purpose) because you refuse to understand that there is something different between "the law" and "why people do what they do." Get over that and you'll actually take a big leap forward into understanding this world.
I'm trying to get you to talk about the important things. But every time I bring up something important and uncomfortable, like say what you personally think about copyright, you run away from the debate and stomp your feet and give all sorts of reasons why you won't even talk about that stuff. Usually your excuse is that I'm too dumb to understand or I'm too mean, or something like that. And yet here you are directing a post to me. The fact is, you don't mind chatting with me, but you just don't want to chat about the hard stuff. Stop running away and actually talk this thing out. Stop pretending like unless I limit myself to your preapproved topics then that means I don't understand the world. I understand lots. I spend hours each day pouring over nuance. You'd be surprised at what I understand.
The ONLY person who is to blame for that person's conscious decision to pirate is that person. No one else. Don't like their legal offerings, then don't do business with them. Don't like the way a rightholder chooses not to embrace an opportunity, then don't do business with them. But nothing ever justifies violating their rights. Nothing.
No other blogs day in and day out pumps out as much pirate apologism as Techdirt. Article after article about how piracy is not a big deal, defending any pirate who gets caught, cutting down any rightholder who dares to complain about their rights being violated, blaming the victims, etc. It's a fact that Techdirt is a pirate apologist blog.
I don't think you or the others get it at all. Techdirt is right there day after day telling everyone all the apologist nonsense they need so they'll keep on thinking that piracy is really just swell. Instead of pumping out article after article trying to explain away the wrongness of piracy, why don't you guys start from the fundamental truth that pirates are willfully violating other people's rights and that they shouldn't do so because it is fundamentally wrong? But you and Mike and the others will never do that. You'll never write even one article that doesn't take a pro-piracy point of view, and then you'll keep on pretending that Techdirt isn't pro-piracy. "Pro-piracy? Not us! Never!" It's silly and dishonest.
Can I decide which of your rights I'll respect, Rodent? And would it be wrong of me to violate one of your rights because I had some way of rationalizing that you really shouldn't have right to begin with?
This is basic stuff, and you guys seem unwilling to even admit that violating other people's rights is wrong.
Tell me this (and no one here seems willing to answer this simple question): Can I pick and choose which of your rights I want to respect? If I decide to violate one of your rights, would it be wrong?
I think is obvious that it is wrong, and that's the POV that Techdirt wants to sweep under the rug. This is basic Golden Rule stuff that every kindergartner understands.
So you're of the school that you get to decide which rights matter and which ones don't. Can I just decide to violate your rights then? I understand that you don't agree with the law, but I don't understand how you get from there to the point where you're OK with violating it. We're talking about property rights. These people make valuable property at their own expense and then try to sell it on the market. To pretend like that violates your rights is silly. To pretend like the notion is so terrible that people are justified to violate those people's rights is silly. And to pretend like copyright doesn't create great works that we all love is just silly. You guys all hate copyright so much, but then your willing to break the law to get the copyrighted stuff. Don't you see the disconnect?
As a consumer, I've constantly had my rights willfully violated by the content industry for quite some time. Were you this passionate when they said it's illegal to take a legally purchased DVD and make a legal digital copy to legally placeshift? Were you this passionate when they said it's illegal to lend a legally purchased ebook to my friend? Were you this passionate when they said it's ok to take away the OtherOS feature from my legally purchased PlayStation long after I had already paid for it?
That makes no sense. Your rights aren't violated by any of those things. Piracy, on the other hand, actually does violate someone's rights.
I am *not* trying to convey a 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander' message here. All I'm saying is that it's unfair to promote creator's rights while the industry is willfully violating consumer's rights. Both sides are doing 'wrong' to the other so it's rather difficult to objectively pick a side here.
They're not willfully violating consumer's rights. You're making that up.
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And it mandates that any copyrights/patents are only granted for limited times. It's clearly intended that works become freely copyable at some point and not some inalienable moral property right.
Yep, the Constitution gives Congress the power to create copyright laws. And Congress did so right at the very start and we've had federal copyright laws for about 225 years. And before that, the states had their own copyright laws. I never said it's an inalienable moral right. I've always been perfectly clear that it's a statutory right. Nonetheless, it is a right and it is to be respected as someone's right. I don't believe in moral rights or natural rights or any of that stuff. I look at only one thing: Do they have the right, or do they not? I'm a simple person.
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Not a good argument, Leigh. You're really grasping on that one.
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1. Do you agree that if someone violates your rights, then that someone has acted immorally? If not, then which of your rights is it moral to violate?
2. Do you agree that Techdirt is about A LOT more than just helping artists out in the digital age? Do you agree that Techdirt has thrust itself into the copyright wars?
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Funny thing is, some of the rights that we value the most are arbitrary. I'm thinking of the implied fundamental liberty rights that the Supreme Court has identified in its line of substantive due process cases. These are fundamental rights like the right to marry and the right to privacy. Talk about arbitrary. One word in the Constitution, "liberty," has been interpreted to imply a host of fundamental rights.
But copyright is anything but arbitrary. It's mentioned in the Constitution directly, and then Congress has spelled it out explicitly in the Copyright Act. It's anything but arbitrary.
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So if I decide that you aren't really harmed, can I violate your rights? And what if the harm is indirect and hard to prove? Does that mean I'm doubly justified to just violate away? Just because you don't see the harm doesn't mean that you get to unilaterally decide that someone else's rights are properly violated. What makes you the arbiter of other people's harms? It doesn't work that way. This is basic Being a Human Being 101 stuff. I know the Gospel according to Masnick doesn't teach this stuff, but even children know it's wrong to violate other people's rights--even if the harm isn't readily apparent. Or even if there's no harm at all. If I trespass across your yard, you can sue me for nominal damages, even if I cause no actual harm. That's how property rights work.
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If you have a business model that works for some people. Great. Good for you and good for them. It's the expecting that everyone else should use your alternative models where the problem begins. Prove to the world that your way is better. Nothing is stopping you from doing this. Copyright doesn't prohibit artists from giving their works away if they want to. If your way is better, others will follow. But until you get the world on your side, don't be so angry at the world for choosing a different path. And don't be angry at artists who choose to exercise their marketable right. And please stop pretending like the marketable right that copyright provides doesn't bring lots of great works into the world. It clearly does. Even most of the books that Techdirt uses in its book club are the product of the copyright business model. You guys can't even find more than a couple books published under your alternative models. That should tell you something about your models.
You really think being a victim is black and white? There are a lot of things to be a victim of, and I'd certainly choose some over others.
If a pirate chooses to violate someone's rights, then that someone is a victim. And only the pirate is to blame. Everything taught on Techdirt to the contrary is pirate-apologism. It's really that simple. I couldn't care less if you want to show people a route that you think is better. It's when you are so condescending and closed-minded to anyone that doesn't take your alternate route that the apologism kicks in. Techdirt is all about pirate-apologism. Day after day, post after post, copyright is torn to pieces and the virtues of piracy are defended and extolled. Rightholders who dare exercise their rights are mocked and belittled. Don't pretend even for one second that that's not the case. You can try and pretend like morality doesn't play into it, but the fact remains that Techdirt has taken the side of the pirates, and the pirates are amorally violating other people's rights. Considering the fact that you've chosen the amoral side of the argument, the fact that you don't want to talk about the morals isn't at all surprising.
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It fails that test yet practically every nation on earth recognizes it and grants rights for it. You're living in a dream world that doesn't exist. You may not respect IP, but that's clearly not the majority view. And let me guess, you have no problem with deciding for themselves which rights are important and which are not. Am I right? Can I decide which of your rights are important and which ones I want to violate? This stuff isn't hard. If you read Techdirt too much you'll be spoonfed all sorts of apologist propaganda, but at the end of the day it comes down to whether you decide for yourself to violate the law and the violate other people's rights. Sadly, many of Mike's devout followers have no problem with deciding to violate other people's rights. Mike gives you guys all sorts of excuses to hang your hats on. That's his fundamental purpose in life, as far as I can tell.
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Stop blaming the victims, and start blaming the only side that is to blame for piracy--the pirates. I'll win the moral every single time. That's why you guys don't want to have it. When you take works that are for sale without paying for them, you are hurting the victims and you are violating their rights. Just admit that much and start from there.
Are there other business models out there? Sure. If your alternative models are so great, more people would be using them. Maybe one day everyone will. But until then, stop pretending like people following the business model where they sell the product that other people value (crazy!) are actually doing anything wrong. They aren't. The only ones doing anything wrong are the ones that violate other people's rights. It's really that simple.
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Clearly Techdirt does a lot more than just help people find practical solutions. Techdirt has clearly taken an extreme position in the copyright wars. There's article after article where anything pro-copyright is derided, where the victims of infringement are blamed for what the pirates consciously decide to do to them, where anybody who dares to say or think anything positive about copyright is torn to pieces, where the pirates who get caught are always defending to the bitter end no matter what, where even the thought of any new law changing copyright or providing rightholders with any kind of new enforcement mechanism is torn apart, etc.
For you to pretend that the only thing Techdirt does is help people find solutions is disingenuous. Techdirt is the go-to place for hardcore, extremist anti-copyright propaganda. Give me a break with the stupid "we're only trying to help people" argument. It's sad.
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I read your first sentence and stopped reading. Insulting me gets you nowhere. If you want to try again with another post that doesn't start out with an insult, I'll gladly read your post.
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Mike always insults those who dare to see things differently than him and who dare to speak their minds. It's sad.
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And yet practically every single country on earth has laws against copying. If it was so inherently evil to grant copyrights, why would all these countries do so? Because there's more to it that your oversimplified view of things. Culture has always and will always exist. Copyright adds to that culture as it incentivizes new works. I know you personally see copyright as antithetical to culture, but that is an extremist, minority view. The majority view on this planet is that not only do the two coexist, but they do so harmoniously. You tend to look at little slivers and claim that the system is broken. You need to look at the bigger picture, which includes society over a large number of years. But you never do that. I've seen you make arguments like "a teacher couldn't copy a textbook and give copies to all the students, therefore copyright is not serving its purpose to promote the progree." That argument is so narrow and so wrong, it hurts. Look at the bigger picture, which includes questioning things like whether that textbook would even exist in the first place if no one paid for it.
So to compare copyright to murder is simply clueless. One has nothing to do with the other. Most people do not murder because there is a law against murder. They do not murder for millions of other reasons.
The comparison was that if there weren't laws against murder, then people could murder as they please. And if there weren't laws against copying, then people could copy as they please. You can replace the word "murder" with pretty much anything that has a law against it. But to say that the laws against murder are somehow more real or important than the laws against copying doesn't hold up. It's because so many nations recognize the wisdom of granting authors exclusive rights that so many countries in fact do so. It's no more made up than any other right. And history has shown that without laws against murder, people would do it frighteningly more often.
And, really, that is the sole point that Leigh was trying to make, and which seems unfathomable to you: there are lots of reasons that people do things that have little to do with "it's the law!" And arguing from a position of "it's the law!" without being willing to actually comprehend what we're actually talking about just makes you look silly.
I'm pointing out that you can't just ignore all the unpleasant parts and pretend like Techdirt is only about helping artists survive in the Golden Age of Piracy. You and Techdirt do way more than that. You've obviously picked sides, and it's obviously with the pirates. You try and sweep all the moral stuff under the rug, and you downplay all the negative aspects of piracy. You demand that everyone only focus on the narrow issues you think are important. I'm merely pointing out the truth, the truth that you don't want anyone to think about, that there's bigger, broader things at play.
There are important conversations going on here, and you're diluting them (at this point I have to assume on purpose) because you refuse to understand that there is something different between "the law" and "why people do what they do." Get over that and you'll actually take a big leap forward into understanding this world.
I'm trying to get you to talk about the important things. But every time I bring up something important and uncomfortable, like say what you personally think about copyright, you run away from the debate and stomp your feet and give all sorts of reasons why you won't even talk about that stuff. Usually your excuse is that I'm too dumb to understand or I'm too mean, or something like that. And yet here you are directing a post to me. The fact is, you don't mind chatting with me, but you just don't want to chat about the hard stuff. Stop running away and actually talk this thing out. Stop pretending like unless I limit myself to your preapproved topics then that means I don't understand the world. I understand lots. I spend hours each day pouring over nuance. You'd be surprised at what I understand.
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No other blogs day in and day out pumps out as much pirate apologism as Techdirt. Article after article about how piracy is not a big deal, defending any pirate who gets caught, cutting down any rightholder who dares to complain about their rights being violated, blaming the victims, etc. It's a fact that Techdirt is a pirate apologist blog.
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This is basic stuff, and you guys seem unwilling to even admit that violating other people's rights is wrong.
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I think is obvious that it is wrong, and that's the POV that Techdirt wants to sweep under the rug. This is basic Golden Rule stuff that every kindergartner understands.
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That makes no sense. Your rights aren't violated by any of those things. Piracy, on the other hand, actually does violate someone's rights.
I am *not* trying to convey a 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander' message here. All I'm saying is that it's unfair to promote creator's rights while the industry is willfully violating consumer's rights. Both sides are doing 'wrong' to the other so it's rather difficult to objectively pick a side here.
They're not willfully violating consumer's rights. You're making that up.
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