Please continue on d-community-offtopic. Thanks Zenaan
On 5/23/14, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014 22:31:18 -0400 > Jerry Stuckle <jstuc...@attglobal.net> wrote: > > >> > ... >> >>>> Copyright violations are rampant on the web. >> >>> >> >>> Thank you for refraining from calling that piracy. >> >> >> >> OK, since you insist, I'll call it what it is - piracy. >> > >> > I didn't think you were _such_ a contrarian. Proved me wrong. >> > >> >> I'm not. What you describe is piracy. >> >> > You're also firmly aligned with copyright industry rhetoric. Oh >> > well, I seriously thought you were above that... >> > >> >> Unlike you, I am not above the law. And I have created intellectual >> property in the past which is copyrighted (unlike you, obviously). >> And I protect my copyrights. > > Don't bother arguing with these idiots Jerry. I'll bet you dollars to > donuts they never took the time to write, edit, format, produce, and > market a 100K word book to help them feed their children. They probably > have salary jobs, and if they get laid off, they get unemployment. > > Here's the thing Jerry: With all their yelling, I never once heard any > of these 150 decibel anti-DRM clowns promise not to give or sell a copy > of an author's work to someone else. I'm not talking about right of > first sale, which I assume they know nothing about, I'm talking about > buying (or grabbing from a torrent) a copy of somebody's work, keeping > it, but making copies of it and giving the copies to others. After all, > according to them, once they bought it, they can do anything they want > with it, right? > > It's not their problem that Article 1, section 8, paragraph 8 of the > US Constitution provides authors and inventors a limited time exclusive > right to the author's or inventor's writings and discoveries. It's > not their problem that copyright was a part of English law long before > the US constitution was written. It's not their problem that copyright > is part of the Berne convention, accepted and enforced by most modern > nations. > > It's not these clowns' problem if someone spent between 3 and 18 months > writing a book, in hope of feeding their children. It's not their > problem if the author must compete with cheap or zero cost exact copies > of the work he spent so long making, because the clowns are > distributing copies like the autumn leaves. It's not their problem > if the author's children don't eat. The clowns got theirs. > > It's kind of ironic, isn't it? If they don't like DRM (and who does?), > they should blame those who unauthorizedly distribute (or possess > unauthorized distributions). DRM was made to prevent these activities, > due to high number of freeloaders wanting authors to write for free. If > they don't like DMCA (and who does?), blame the unauthorized > distributors. If they don't like the obscene life+70 copyright periods > of many nations including the US, blame the unauthorized distributors, > who ceded the moral high ground to Disney and Sonny Bono and that crowd > by snatching money right out of authors' pocketbooks. > > Jerry, if the clowns who have been arguing with you had a single > testicle between them, they'd do with Stallman does: Simply promise > never to buy, procure, nor distribute, nonfree content. Stallman > *never* makes unauthorized copies of nonfree content. But that's not > their style: they whine about buying a book and then not being able to > give copies to others: or at least they never forswore making copies and > distributing to others. > > The sad thing is, Jerry, although I hate the fact that the US law > provides for a judgment of $150K *per unauthorizedly obtained work* > against those who unauthorizedly copy, or receive such copies, the > arrogant disregard of stealing other peoples' opportunity to make money, > and their pride in not knowing the law, make me hope it happens to them. > > They're clowns Jerry: ignore them. > > SteveT > Steve Litt > Author: Troubleshooting: Tools, Tips and Techniques > Author: Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist > Author: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > Author: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business > Author: Rapid Learning For the 21st Century > Author: Thriving in Tough Times > Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence > Author: Rules of the Happiness Highway > All but the first two written and produced using Free Software > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140522203556.1c0e543e@mylap4 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSQt6U-kmqx5eZ=df8jsspnkidngtwg7nscjantckrf...@mail.gmail.com
