On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 15:22 -0700,
Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
> Not to rehash the intellectual property arguments, but I want to kill the
> abusive #@!*%($# my wife is unfortunate enough to work with, but I have been
> 'educated' that this is 'wrong' and 'illegal'. Are you saying I should just
> say "Umm, I think it is too fucking bad" and skin them while they sleep
> anyway?
>
> Laws are designed to encourage behavior that is healthy for our society and
> discourage behavior that is unhealthy for our society. Laws that make it
> possible to protect your creation from abuse is good, forcing these laws on
> content providers who do not wish to protect their creations is bad. Creating
> public fear instead of education is also bad. But again, if you purchase a
> house that has a clear stipulation that the original architect has finale say
> on any modifications, then you do not have the rite to modify your house
> without his/her approval. But you do have the rite not to buy the house.
>
> [Please remember I believe in fair use, and I believe the RIAA goes to far]
----
We are gotten so far afield that I have wondered whether any opinion
that I may have is worth posting and to that extent, I will limit my
opinion.
Apparently, there is a notion of a restricted rights on what you
purchase thereby making it unclear that what you have purchased is yours
to do as you please. I simply denounce that as unworkable.
I am content, feel empowered to view any dvd that I have purchased on
any player mechanism that I have purchased and if to accomplish this
task, I have to implement some code that some court deems this code to
be illegal, I am ready to suffer the consequences. Of course there
cannot be consequences so the issue is absurd. Any political entity or
corporation that seeks to prevent me from doing so would prove its
hostility and suffer consequences far greater than I.
This notion of purchasing license for use in severely limited form is
perverse and endemic. Where I can - such as computer software, the open
source alternatives are so obviously the only true options that a user
such as myself has. This however enjoys no half-way measures. It makes
little sense to justify running openoffice.org or mozilla on a Macintosh
or Windows machine as you cannot get beyond the hostile, restricted use
licensing merely by looking the other way.
Yes, we are a nation of laws and the laws are written by the politicians
we elect. The process has become entirely subjugated by the two parties
which have finagled the laws to entrench themselves. The people of this
country have become indifferent and hasn't become pissed off enough to
fix the problem. Thus we have the moneyed interests - corporations,
deciding the politics and hence the laws. This is why we have such poor
choices as candidates, stupid laws such as DMCA, etc.
Craig
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