Re: Asimov performs a valuable service; so why fight over it

[jimw@vosaic.com (Jim Wong)]

In article <6i5sn2$pu3$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul
Francis Gilbert) wrote:
> That's what so depressing... people shouting the "law is the law", when by
> their own arguments they clearly know very little about it. By your own
> counterargument, are we to believe that if someone commits murder it morally
> and legally allows you to beat the crap out of them or kill them yourself?
> No, you let *THE PROPER AUTHORITY DO IT*. It *is* the same thing with
> copyright. If you catch a copyright infringement, you can notify the
> proper authority (ie. the copyright owner), but you have no legal rights to
> pursue the copyright infrigement yourself. Understand?

I don't recall seeing anyone here threatening legal action against the
operators of the site in question, but I may have missed something.

That said, there's no law preventing people from calling a thief a thief.