of *course* its your god given right to listen to whatever you can, read
whatever you can, learn whatever you want, say what ever you want. it
has *always* been this way. the concept that you might control what i
am able to learn is such a bastardization of logic, morality and the
laws of all modern democracies it makes me sick.
seriously, THINK about the implications of what you are saying. you
think that the government (or anyone for that matter) has the right to
dictate what information i am allowed to digest? did you all fail basic
civics???
you people need some serious schooling on the history of IP. here is a
great quote that i got from a wire article on the subject:
* "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an
idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it
to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of
it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less,
because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea
from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who
lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That
ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the
moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,
seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when
she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening
their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move,
and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive
appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of
property." - Thomas Jefferson
**
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html*
*
i've got some ben franklin quotes around here somewhere....
**please, dont just spout dogma, open your mind, dont think that because
the law says something that it is right. THINK for yourself.*
quoted 4 lines Exactly...All the entitlement issues people seem to have also gets my
>Exactly...All the entitlement issues people seem to have also gets my
>goat, like it's their god-given right to acquire music for free.
>Really, really pisses me off.
>
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