Hey Tim, While I respect your position, I refuse to allow us, as a group, to collectively base this discussion on false analogies and appeals to emotion.
The distinction between "theft" and "unauthorized duplication" is /very/ important. The YR service is /not/ like stealing a car. If you steal my car I no longer have it. On the other hand, if you walk up to my car and magically make 100 copies of it, I still have my car and it has /not/ been stolen. I am not arguing whether either one is right, wrong, or has more or less impact than the other. I only argue that the outcomes of these two actions are very different and should not morally or legally be judged as the same. Personally, I think the real interesting questions regarding IP law are: If we all have the ability to clone things for free, why should we pay for those things? Is it safe to build economies on markets of artificial scarcity? Regards, Kyle Spencer ----- Original message ----- > Ok, there are lots of threads within a thread here so let me summarise > the arguments. Please feel free to comment if you do not agree. > > It is a fact that Badru has a site on which he is distributing > copyrighted material that does not belong to him and without the > permission of the owners. > > It is a fact that taking something that does not belong to you without > the permission of the owner is theft. > > Badru and others say that this is acceptable as there are other people > who are also stealing from these people so he may as well join in. I > do not agree with this. > > This is a Linux user group. Linux would not exist without copyright > law. If people in the rest of the world do not respect copyright law, > the software we all enjoy will disappear. > > It is not ok to portray this as the developing world against the > developed world. Other developing countries including the rest of EAC > are trying to respect the rights of copyright holders. Why can't > Uganda. > > These are hard working creative artists and programmers that you are > agreeing it is acceptable to steal from. > > This summarisesz my position I think. > > -- > WebERP Africa Ltd > +447710427049 > +256752963327 > +255784602561 > www.weberpafrica.com > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
