Digital piracy worse than child pornography
and I wonder when it will become illegal to resell a book?
The Inquirer has an interesting view on the US's pending new DMCA upgrades.
It seems if you beat the crap out of a member of the RIAA or movie industry then you can get 6 years in prision but if you download one of his precious videos you can get 10 years in prison (the same as a child molester). I wonder if the sentences would run concurrently? If so then if I am looking at ten years in prison for downloading a movie then I ought to be able to have some pleasure beforehand.
Lazarus Long (Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love") summed it up so well: "My status in hell will be determined by the size of the honor guard that I take with me." So I ask you, "Just how much status would I get in prison for stealing a video? For beating the crap out of the RIAA?"
If I download one of Microsoft's pieces of crap then again I might get 10 years in prison but Billy Boy Gates' won't do any prison time for m$ reverse-engineering a lot of other people's software and then selling it as his own. He did not do jail time for theft. That is what it is: theft. Is it OK for m$ and other corporations to steal but not for me? Should I incorporate in order to do my downloads? Hey, there's an idea. The RIAA can only get the assets of the corporation.
Ain't America great or what? You get just as much justice as you can afford or can fight for. Or politicians you can buy. With billons you can buy many of them...
All this DMCA crap is why I enjoy reading science fiction. I cannot download it but I can buy as much as I can read for a few dollars at flea markets and used book stores. I can trade and resell. Favorite authors include Heinlein, Asimov, Zenna Henderson, Spyder Robinson and many others. I have some books that I have reread more than a half dozen times and did not have to pay a reuse fee each time.
I wonder when it will become illegal to resell a book?
and I wonder when it will become illegal to resell a book?
The Inquirer has an interesting view on the US's pending new DMCA upgrades.
It seems if you beat the crap out of a member of the RIAA or movie industry then you can get 6 years in prision but if you download one of his precious videos you can get 10 years in prison (the same as a child molester). I wonder if the sentences would run concurrently? If so then if I am looking at ten years in prison for downloading a movie then I ought to be able to have some pleasure beforehand.
Lazarus Long (Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love") summed it up so well: "My status in hell will be determined by the size of the honor guard that I take with me." So I ask you, "Just how much status would I get in prison for stealing a video? For beating the crap out of the RIAA?"
If I download one of Microsoft's pieces of crap then again I might get 10 years in prison but Billy Boy Gates' won't do any prison time for m$ reverse-engineering a lot of other people's software and then selling it as his own. He did not do jail time for theft. That is what it is: theft. Is it OK for m$ and other corporations to steal but not for me? Should I incorporate in order to do my downloads? Hey, there's an idea. The RIAA can only get the assets of the corporation.
Ain't America great or what? You get just as much justice as you can afford or can fight for. Or politicians you can buy. With billons you can buy many of them...
All this DMCA crap is why I enjoy reading science fiction. I cannot download it but I can buy as much as I can read for a few dollars at flea markets and used book stores. I can trade and resell. Favorite authors include Heinlein, Asimov, Zenna Henderson, Spyder Robinson and many others. I have some books that I have reread more than a half dozen times and did not have to pay a reuse fee each time.
I wonder when it will become illegal to resell a book?
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