On Sunday 10 February 2013 10:37:29 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:22:29AM -0500, drew Roberts wrote: > > You are not stealing anything from the creator. They had that control > > before they showed the work to anyone. Once they put it out in the public > > realm, they gave up that ability. > > They didn't give up anything, they counted on the law to protect them. > Just as they count on it for not being mugged. Using copyrighted > material simply because you easily can do it, and because *you* think > it doesn't affect the copyright holder at all, isn't any better than > beating up someone because you happen to be stronger, and afterwards > telling it was just for fun. I don't do it because I choose to respect? / obey what I think is a terrible law. Some would likely look down on me for that but there you go. That does not stop me from stating what a horrid law I think it is though nor from saying that violating that law and making unauthorised copies is not stealing even if it is illegal. Personally, I try to give as much attention as I can manage to those who indicate they do not want to use such a law against me for doing normal things with their works. > > Ciao, all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
