Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 01, 2004 05:29 PM
Right on spot mate.
That what has been "stolen" is "income". Not goods.
Data, when copied, cannot be stolen. It can only be copied unrightfully (according to the law). The definition of thief and stolen imply that there's a loss of the owner but when data is copied there's no direct loss of that what has been copied. The author still has the original data.
And well, "income" being "stolen" is a tough one. You know, with the internet, people have found a way to _copy_ data for as cheap as $0 excluding bandwidth. Eben Moglen describes this in various speeches for example his speech at Harvard. I suggest those who disagree go watch it.
The only way to stop this mass infringement of copyright (an artificial layer against the way of humanity) is by starting FUD to those who do or by using methods such as DRM (also an artificial layer against the way of humanity). I suggest we oppose both.
The fact information wants to be Free can be noticed in various aspects of our history. For example, mouth to mouth stories (ie. faerytales) have always existed prior to copyright. Childs' play to understand, imo.
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Re:Not Theft...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 01, 2004 05:29 PMThat what has been "stolen" is "income". Not goods.
Data, when copied, cannot be stolen. It can only be copied unrightfully (according to the law). The definition of thief and stolen imply that there's a loss of the owner but when data is copied there's no direct loss of that what has been copied. The author still has the original data.
And well, "income" being "stolen" is a tough one. You know, with the internet, people have found a way to _copy_ data for as cheap as $0 excluding bandwidth. Eben Moglen describes this in various speeches for example his speech at Harvard. I suggest those who disagree go watch it.
The only way to stop this mass infringement of copyright (an artificial layer against the way of humanity) is by starting FUD to those who do or by using methods such as DRM (also an artificial layer against the way of humanity). I suggest we oppose both.
The fact information wants to be Free can be noticed in various aspects of our history. For example, mouth to mouth stories (ie. faerytales) have always existed prior to copyright. Childs' play to understand, imo.
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