Re: Archiving old magazines on website

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <956616081001456.NC-1.61.joobs@news.free-online.net>,
John Burns <joobs@grizo.free-onlineNOJUNK.co.uk> wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:49:29 -0600, russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew
>Russotto) wrote:
>
>> Ain't no such thing as "copyright theft", except in the eyes of Jack Valenti
>> and the judge who wrote the now-overturned Verizon ruling (who just dictated
>> Jack's argument).  The real animal is called copyright infringement.
>
>Fair point but this isn't a court and I think we all understand what is meant by
>the term. 

Use of the term marks the user as a partisan for propagandist for
the MPAA, RIAA, and other copyright extremists.  Not happy with
"piracy" -- a term which they, in earlier incarnations, invented to
demonize copyright infringers but which has instead become an almost
neutral word to describe infringement -- they switched to "copyright
theft".  I won't use it and I will object to its use.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."  But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of 
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.