<humorous aside, ignore at will> Cor blimey, it's like watching Walter Benjamin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon Go at it like luchadores. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucha_libre
>On 31/01/07, James Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/30/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Metaphors that compare digital data to physical objects are almost > > always confusion. > > Agreed. :-) > > Stealing is stealing, copying is copying. Stealing is not copying. > > Not agreed. But then, you might be confusing physical objects with > data. (!) Do explain :-) > > If you make furniture, the fact that furniture-duplication wands are > > invented does not give you the right to restrict people from > > duplicating chairs. > > No, but I should have the rights to restrict people from duplicating > MY chairs. I'm sorry I wasn't clear, because that's what I meant. Restated: If you make furniture, the fact that furniture-duplication wands are invented does not give you the right to restrict people from duplicating the chairs you made. Restricing commercial duplication might be okay, but not non-commercial in-the-public-view duplication, and certainly not private between-friends duplication. -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
