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Old 10-05-2007, 05:48 PM
Felix Torres
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Sorry.
Not meaning to shoot you down.
But I do find issue with the so-called "libertarians" of the EFF and the IT industry who encourage this kind of theft.

I rather fancy myself an actual libertarian and the first rule is that my rights and freedoms end where yours begin.
Either everybody's rights are respected or nobody's are.
And that includes blood-sucking music studios.

Might does not make right.
Just because technology allows me to publish somebody else's creations without permission doesn't mean I should be allowed to do do.
Just because I don't like somebody else's pricing or business model does no entitle me to take it without paying for it.

Don't like a law? Get it changed.
But as long as the law is on the books, you are subject to its provisions.
Anything else is anarchy.

And anarchy is not libertarianism.
 
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