In these times where income inequality in the USA is the worst it's been since the Gilded Age, I think a little bit of perspective is best used when dropping the term "meager income". If you've got pocket money for computer collecting, I don't think you get to make that claim.
Best, Sean On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:36 PM, geneb <ge...@deltasoft.com> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Evan Koblentz wrote: > > >> That's why I speak out against attempts to paint copyright violation as >>> other things, such as theft: it's an appeal to emotions, trying to equate >>> "thing I want people to oppose" with "very different thing I expect people >>> already consider bad". It's a fundamentally dishonest bit of oratory. >>> >> >> I write for a (meager) living. If someone were to take my work and decide >> for themselves that it should be online for free, then they ARE stealing >> from me. That is reality, not the semantics of case law. >> > > No, they're not stealing from you. Quit taking talking points from the > RIAA. > > > g. > > -- > Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 > http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. > http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. > Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. > > ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment > A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. > http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_! >
