On Nov 17, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:55:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: >> >> Laws to protect copyrighted or patented goods certainly exist. >> Unfortunately, they are poorly enforced. There is no universal >> "standard" for copyright infringement, etcetera. The best way to >> protect copyrighted material is stopping its pilferage at the source; >> ie, making every entity in the chain of its illegal usage responsible. > > If there are problems with enforcement, creating new laws will not > magically fix that. > > What SOPA and PIPA do is essentially let people with intrinsic commercial > conflicts of interest to bypass the checks and balances of the legal > system to have competitors and innocent bystanders shut down without due > process or actual proof of wrongdoing. These aren't just poorly worded > bills; they're poorly conceived bills. MasterCard opposes the bill > because its executives and legal staff believe it will legally force them > to cut off millions or billions in revenue generated by perfectly legal > operations every year. Google opposes the bill because its executives, > engineers, and legal staff believe it will require them to *spend* > millions or billions every year in dealing with enforcement of spurious > claims by parties with no actionable cause to make their claims. > > >> >> Theft is theft no matter how a socialist/fascist tries to color it. > > Copyright infringement is copyright infringement -- and not theft -- no > matter how hyperbolic your choice of phrasing. Castigate people for the > unlawful act of copyright infringement if you want to, but please do not > conflate two separate bodies of law by equating one illegal act with > another. This abuse of terms is largely the fault of media conglomerates > and their lobbying organizations (e.g. the RIAA and MPAA). The more you > repeat these abuses of terminology, the more they are emboldened; I think > it was the RIAA representative at the SOPA hearing yesterday who > literally equated copyright infringement with *murder*. > > Don't be like that jackass. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I could not agree more. Cheers, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http://twitter.com/mikelking _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"