On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:29 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hello,
On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:21, Kevanf1 wrote:
On 20/10/05, Steve Graegert
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\Steve
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Kevan Farmer
Civil disobedience has its place and its role in sound, stable and just societies. I'll speak only of the U.S.A., but we are in big trouble and are far out of balance. Civil disobedience (and a lot of it) is certainly called for. Matters of intellectual property rights (assuming the term is not an oxymoron) are but a small portion of our problems.
The only thing I warn is that you understand Civil Disobedience properly. Do some reading first and truly understand the concepts and principles before you start simply ignoring laws because you deem them unjust.
Martin Luther was cast out of the Catholic church for disobedience and challenging its sins of that age. Gandhi and Martin Luther King went to jail a lot. Here I think there might be a better issue using the law against itself. Always before copywrite allowed for personal backups since the time of cassette tapes which would be duplicated onto metal oxide for use in a car when the better sounding tapes would be ruined by the heat etc. There is also the possibility that the use of some DRM technologies may be illegal ala Poison Celon whose cdroms deliberately damaged computer equipment at some point by using a data channel outside the music channels on the cd. If these measures cause harm in other countrys then the makers of these technologies and the users of same might be legitimately sued in many countrys. In America its called a class action, many small plaintifs joining for common cause. But finding a lawyer with courage and deap pockets may be a problem. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/