Re: Strike

In article <i5caj3prt72kt5t7rrddrrkp0t21g9gk94@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> This one actually went to court.  The studios lost on the right to
> prevent people from copying shows onto VHS for private use. 

Yes, but it was a very slim margin - they almost got away with it - 
imagine if the VHS "revolution" had never come to be - how different the 
world would have looked today.

>  
> >> >> Computer software is intellectual property.
> >> >
> >> >I know what the law says. The law is wrong.
> >
> >> How so?  It's the equivalant of walking into 
> >> Circuit City and stealing a flat screen Tv.
> >
> >Not in the least, the tv is property and they have lost a sale. If 
> >someone illegaly copies the immaterial software which is not property
it 
> >is not certain that a sale has lost - for this reason alone it should 
> >neither be called stealing nor property.
> 
> If someone copies and DISTRIBUTES such copies, they are breaking
> copyright law (and in the case of digital reproduction, the DCMA).

So now you wish to change the subject from "it's stealing" to "it is 
against the law"? If you do that means you agree it is not stealing.

> You may not think it *should* be law, but it is and your opinion is
> irrelevant to the fact that intellectual copyright law exists.

Not in the least. If i convert just one person and he starts spreading 
the info then one day the laws will be overturned.