Oh, but wait.

It doesn’t matter, because copyright laws are woefully outdated, having been drafted long before the dawn of the Internet age, and are so biased towards parasitic middlemen like the RIAA that it lets them get away with robbing both the consumers and the artists blind. In otherwords, copyright law as it exists today is bad.

And bad laws are made to be broken.

So don’t worry if filesharing is illegal, because the only laws you’re violating are ones that richly deserve it.

BTW, I love these losers’ implication that we should obey the law simply because its the law. These are the types of citizens that fascists throughout history have drooled over.

Or we could go down the religous side of things. All ideas spawn from god. so really he owns them. now i dont agree with that part. just an arguement.

Really though you cant own numbers.

I assume that at the same time you’ll be tracking their web-usage,the websites they go to, what they see.

This way you can tell if they’re going to websites that build bombs or not.

You know, you’re on to something. We should wire-tap phones, install security cameras into all buildings and rooms. Maybe even start assigning people specific Jobs, so that they are completely controlled. Then there won’t be any problem at all with people doing things they shouldn’t. We could call this place Libria.

In the old days a false accuser would be put to death, but these days there are no penalties. Here is the problem: these companies are faceless. What we need is the identities of the people behind this to be exposed on the net. I want to know their addresses, phone numbers and where their kids go to school. Only if this information is public would they think twice about their dirty tactics.

I know whenever I write a “script” or do something that I feel proud of it kinda sucks for someone else to take it and call it their own.

The arguement “Influenced” vs “Stolen” is an interesting one, where being influenced by an African tribe to write music instead of having stolen the music. However, the line is very grey. At one hand you could have obvious “influenced” where you write your own song that simply relates to the event, and at the other you have a direct copy of the original song…

But in between you have so many shades of grey. How do you decide if you are breaking a moral code or not? (Sometimes people are immoral, but in general people have these in-built laws that they follow when they recognize others as human beings that have similar feelings).

I honestly don’t know where I stand yet. I’m mostly on the side of mass sharing of information (where everyone benefits from a new chemical I just discovered) instead of privatizing (where I get a lot of money for this new chemical).

Please continue the discussion, some kind of name that you keep throughout the discussion would make it easier though :P

F*ck copyright.

F*ck the RIAA.

They do evil shit, we do evil shit right back, thats how it works. Are you trying to play on peoples morals or something? This website is what makes people feel morally right, since the industry sucks.

Weed is ‘illegal’ and i smoke the hell outa that.

To say that you “own” music is like saying that you “own” software. When you purchase it, you are purchasing the right to use it (or in the case of music, listen to). Certainly anything you create can be considered your own, but when you purchase it, you don’t “own” it in the sense that you can do whatever you want with it. I agree with you, I just wanted to make it shorter :)

My question is.. what evidence did these lawyers have that this couple pirated this game other than the fact that the connection came from their IP address? When students get caught with drugs on a school campus do they go after the school officials? No, they go after the students..

Wyatt
http://whatan00b.com

An idea is a thought. The result of electrical impulses working in the brain. To try and claim electrical impulses as “intellectual property” means you may as well start scanning everyone’s brain so they don’t have the same idea, because then thinking it after it’s already been thought is illegal.

EXACTLY! The question is where to go from here…