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

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

tward@XXXXenteract.com writes:

>Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>>      Otherwise, it is standard practice to let the copyright owner
>> decide whether or not he/she disapproves of the treatment of his/her
>> property and whether or not to call upon the legal system for action.
>> The copyright holder is the first legal 'court' in matters involving
>> his/her property.

>By your logic, it is okay for someone to violate the copyright law as long
>as he/she doesn't get caught. Do you also believe it is okay to murder
>someone or rob a bank as long as you don't get caught? Don't tell me it's
>not the same thing. The law is the law.

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 won't quote the rest of the article, since it was mainly the previous
paragraph I wanted to respond to.

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