I didn't say it was fine, because it's not. I said it was inevitable and laws aren't able stop it. All existing infringement deterrence measures have only solidified people's desire to resist compliance. If you treat someone like a criminal long enough, they just say "To hell with it. I'll be a criminal". I'm not saying…
I'm convinced that greevar is an Andy Kaufman level joke. It's been explained to you countless times that the reason people treat you like shit isn't because of your radical opinion but more because of your complete misunderstanding of reality. The fact that you even think you could be the solution to this problem shows…
i AGREE with greevar! arts is information, and arts want to be free, (parallels to the the information revolution in Egypt that topped Hosnie Mubarakh, anyone?) what you cant see, jessie, is that the powers that be are incomprehensible power fiends who want nothing more than for you to be a ATM machine for themselves with…
I wanted to open a thread that tries to get at the core of the issue of copyright and infringement. Not the moral or ethical issues, but the technical reality of it (i.e. copying and sharing is easy). I also wanted to ask others to share their thoughts on how we can settle this dispute about whom is entitled to what in the…