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Article #2082Re: Let's boycott the record industry (LONG)
From: Russ Allbery
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:00
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In gnu.misc.discuss, Ernest Schaal <eschaal@earthlink.net> writes: > The people who will continue to get online music no matter what the > courts say may not be a wife-beaters, but they share a common philosophy > with wife-beaters that is not shared with most of humanity: a sense that > they are not bound by the rule of law. Well, hell, I share that belief, as do most libertarians and probably quite a few Americans given how much that attitude is championed in popular entertainment. I don't believe that rules have any special moral force simply because they're rules. If I think I should be able to do something that happens to be illegal, that means I have a potential negative consequence to weigh into whether or not I do it, but just being illegal certainly doesn't make it morally wrong. Laws are quite frequently completely bogus, to be ignored whenever the gains of ignoring them are greater than the possible negative consequences. Consider all the idiotic local laws against private sexual practices, for example. Copyright laws are not obviously bogus to me in that same way, but I can at least sympathize with the people who feel that way in some circumstances. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b535,1830ba36c07b4c60 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b535,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1830ba36c07b4c60 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 101527,1830ba36c07b4c60 X-Google-Attributes: gid101527,public From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> Subject: Re: Let's boycott the record industry (LONG) Date: 2000/08/13 Message-ID: <ylhf8oollr.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> X-Deja-AN: 657913636 References: <slrn8o1223.d6j.philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk> <okpuniplfl.fsf@arginine.sbc.man.ac.uk> <B5B6CFDE.1567%eschaal@earthlink.net> <ok7l9pwetv.fsf@arginine.sbc.man.ac.uk> <B5B806C8.16D2%eschaal@earthlink.net> <okaeelcct6.fsf@arginine.sbc.man.ac.uk> <B5B82B5A.16EC%eschaal@earthlink.net> <sp9fuko1n4t114@corp.supernews.com> <B5BA28DF.1BF6%eschaal@earthlink.net> <8n47ti$g6e$1@samba.rahul.net> <B5BAFB5A.1C31%eschaal@earthlink.net> <8n4evd$hd8$1@samba.rahul.net> <B5BB2A42.1C36%eschaal@earthlink.net> <Pine.GSU.4.05.10008131422540.3010-100000@psyche.the-wire.com> <3996EE62.9FA8F39@my-dejanews.com> <B5BC4E89.1C61%eschaal@earthlink.net> <399707DC.22B258C7@my-dejanews.com> <B5BC68B6.1C6B%eschaal@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: The Eyrie Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,free.napster,misc.int-property