Re: Asimov Mirror Sites Access Information

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

One sick puppy. Started off trying to make sense and soon lapsed into gutter
speech. Who's gonna blame QC for it now?

Roy

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> I believe I'm showing a complete lapse of judment in posting to an obvious
> flame war, but I can no longer resist. That being said, I'll say my piece.
>
> Laws have NOTHING to do with ethics, morals, or right/wrong. If at some time
> in the distant past, they happened to coincide with laws, it was due to the
> efforts of extraordinarily wise and righteous people. Those people are dead.
> The laws they enacted have long since been ammended, altered, and/or
> repealed into nothing that resembles their former glory. Copyright law
> itself has been altered too many times to count. Why? Copyright laws were
> created to encourage authors to write original works, with the understanding
> that after they had earned their fair and justified profits from that work,
> then that work would belong to the public domain. In the USA, that time was
> set at 14 years, which was deemed appropriate over 200 years ago!! Correct
> me If I'm wrong, but much of the a2 software you are bitching and moaning
> about being 'stolen' falls well within that time frame. And that's in
> meatspace years, guys... it isn't unfair to say that to correct it for
> internet years, that's more like a couple of centuries. Add to the fact,
> that you cannot possibly argue that they are losing any kind of sales, and
> what have you? Another of these victimless crimes that intellectual property
> fascists are always rallying about. Some of the true hobbyists, the people
> who really love these machines would GLADLY buy this software retail, were
> it offered. Not only the software, but all of the registration perks that
> were offered, all of the documentation that is hard to come by, and even
> harder to live without... that would be a godsend. If there is a
> moral/ethical crime being committed, if there is SIN here, it's the
> companies that refuse to release these 'copyrighted' works even after they
> can no longer profit by them, just out of spitefulness. Sure, maybe some
> don't realize they are still in demand, and out of forgetfulness, don't give
> it away. That can be forgiven. But those who do it out of some reptilian
> urge to protect their 'territory' simply because they failed to evolve like
> DECENT human beings, they can go fuck themselves. There is 'some' reason for
> copyright law, and those reasons should be appreciated, even if there were
> no 'laws' to 'protect' them. But how far will you people take it? It is only
> data now, only sequences of bits, only ideas, only knowledge. The day is
> coming when 'pirates' will be able to copy anything and everything... little
> molecule sized robots, creating exact replicas of yachts, ferraris and the
> crown jewels. That will be illegal copyright infringement too. And you'll
> justify that too. The poor were meant to be poor, right? Haha, flame me all
> you want. And eat shit and die, while you're at it.