Re: OMG!

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Kelli Halliburton wrote:

> "Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
> 3AF1E0B7.5BA932D1@inetnebr.com">news:3AF1E0B7.5BA932D1@inetnebr.com...
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> > My, my, I wasn't even addressing you. There's an old saying, "Throw a
> stone into
> > a pack of dogs, and you'll know which one was hit." From the yelping, I'd
> say it
> > was Kelli.
>
> I know you weren't addressing me, but as I noted in the first line of my
> post, I had been similarly labeled as Paul, and wished to respond.
>
> Roy, you skate very near a personal attack in this post. I'll try to ignore
> the inflammatory parts of it, and just respond in a more general fashion to
> it.

Frankly Kelli, YOUR post has some nasty personal comments in it, or I would not
have responded with the tone I used.

And I believe that it is sympathy for the plight of their fellow creators

> that has caused this absolutism in copyright protection. But it must be put
> into perspective. As a homeowner, I would be upset if my home were
> burglarized. Extremely upset. And the law protects me against such
> violations. The absentee owner of a lot on which for 10 years has sat a
> vacant, abandoned home is technically entitled to the same protections, but
> would not be nearly so upset if someone burglarized the vacant, abandoned
> home. Would anyone care to argue that the two cases are identical? Would
> anyone care to argue that the police should give equal priority to the two
> cases?
>
> Now, the problem starts when you live in a neighborhood where more and more
> people are abandoning their homes, but you continue to live in yours.

<snip>
Interesting analogy.

> The police no longer care, the
> burglars have opened up all the abandoned houses for others to partake of
> shelter, the squatter's rights people are advocating that the property
> rights of the absentee owners should be devolved upon the squatters living
> in the homes. You are surrounded by chaos and anarchy on all sides. Your own
> home has been broken into several times -- so much that it has become almost
> a fact of life. And yet you still have the nerve to write letters to the
> editor complaining about the burglaries of abandoned homes.

Nerve? You mean you still expect the protection of the law, and the benefits of
your tax dollars? Durn tootin' I would if I were in that situation. And those
few who still produce has the right to expect that the rest of us support and
defend them too. Here is the problem with your argument - you are contending
that since the situation stinks, give up. 1. Neither you nor I, nor anyone else
has the right to tell the last producers to quit, and I hope they don't. 2. I
don't like the "quitter" mind set; and I'll argue against it just as much as
against piracy. If you wish to quit - then do so. But you have no right, and are
very irresponsible to urge others to quit.

>
>
> Does anyone listen to you, or do they think you're an old crank who should
> just move?

Probably both.

Roy