Piracy is wrong
Mikko Särelä
msarela at cc.hut.fi
Thu Jul 4 22:33:39 PDT 2002
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 jamesd at 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."
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