On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 19:08 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > But these people and companies have more many than I do as project > maintainer and if they see it this way, they could make me responsible > for this. This may sound strange, but the music and video industry > doesn't work with logic (e.g. they fight against the possiblity for me > playing my DVDs).
I'd bet money the EFF would launch quickly to your aid. The EFF lives for this stuff. > (e.g. the music industry _knows_ that 80% of all cds are used to copy > audio disc, Indeed they do, that's why I, as Canadian, pay levies on blank CDs so that I may subsequently enjoy my legal right to download music. > You can find many examples for this kind of things, like Napster. Comparing Napster with Freevo (with bt support) is still comparing apples and oranges. I do get what you're saying. The part of me that's pragmatic understands that a conservative approach is safest. But the idealist part of me detests capitulation. (And having a third party repository for plugins like this counts as capitulation.) Not only our laws, but what our society considers ethical increasingly depends not on morality (which is, admittedly, a rather nebulous concept) but rather dictated what things enable corporates to make lots and lots of money. Freevo integrating bt support isn't illegal. In my opinion it isn't even unethical as long as you can site a single, legitimate and legal use. To not integrate features like this under fear of legal pressure from large corporations brings into disturbing focus the kind of "free" society we really live in. Jason.
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