Re: n...

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jeff Blakeney writes ...
> 
> On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 16:05:52 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >Your entire "philosophical" argument is that maintaining wares like Wavy
> >Navy, Raster Blaster, etc. on sites like Asimov is illegal. Yet, despite
> >rantings and complaints from a few troublemakers, no one is shutting down
> >Asimov, 'Fairway, Vault, ..., or Emulation Net, or similar C-64 sites.
> 
> I've been trying to stay out of this round of idiocy

     That may have been a good idea.


> but, to take
> things to an extreme for a moment, by your argument, someone who
> murders another person and doesn't get caught and/or charged did not
> actually do something illegal.
> 
 ....

     As you say, you "take things to an extreme". You also, incorrectly, equate
a one-time happening to a long existing situation.

o- Asimov and the other Apple II archives are not some sudden happening.
Neither is Emu Net. Neither are the established C-64 archives. Several of these
sites have existed for years.

o- The sites are not secret. They are public and their contents are public
(unlike some for-pay archives).

o- The sites do not routinely close and move to new URLs-- a common practice
for genuine pirate sites. They do not have to run from the Law because they
operate in accordance with the Law.

o- The sites have weathered several challenges from a few who want to close
them. 'Everyone', including legitimate Law enforcement, knows about the sites
and has had an opportunity to review the attacks against them. The attacks fall
flat because they are bogus.


     For someone, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, to claim that
sites like Asimov, 'Fairway, and Emu Net are "illegal" amounts to a stubborn
refusal to accept demonstrated reality. To persist in such attacks, to call
site managers "pirates" when, clearly, they are nothing of the kind, is libel.



Rubywand