On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
Let us make a more realistic supposition:
Let us suppose instead he organized an entertainment where a lightly clad singer sang and danced, and showed that video on television interspersed with advertisments, and I then captured that video on my hard disk, deleted the ads, and put it on the internet.
In that case, where is my promise? Doubtless I must have made it in the same moment of forgetfulness as I signed the social contract.
Nowadays, nowhere. And that is mostly because of copyrights. If there were no copyright laws, I bet you would have to sign all sort of things to get tv channels home. And yes, it would be quite a pain in the ass to do this way 'afterwords' when people already have tv's and expect them to work without doing anything. -- Mikko "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all And in the Darkness bind them."