Re: Disney: Blu-ray Needs Lower Player Prices

phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:07:24 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> | Yup... ignorance of the law has never been any plausible defense for 
> | violating it.  Like stealing a purse, I need to be told it's illegal 
> | before I can be convicted of theft?  Hardly.
> 
> Actually, it has been used as a defense, when it was something the
common
> person would not have known it was a crime.  Thanks to those warnings,
that
> is no longer usable today.  But when VCRs first became a commodity item,
> it might not have been.
> 


As a common teenager, I recall my ignoramous defense falling flat as a 
table when I was convicted of possessing a small amount (too small 
really) of real fine THC-laced tobacco product.  I was so common I was 
dumb as a fence post, but they made me sit on the Group W bench anyway. 
  The bastards!  :)

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jer
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