If you were to destroy a couple of lives, you would kill the people containing them. Locking someone up in jail isn't destroying anything of such magnitude. Who knows, they may even benefit from it.
I feel that authorship of such items should be acknowledged, but apart from that I'm quite undecided. It all comes down to what has the most benefit to people generally. But to figure out what has the greatest benefit you would need to know the goal of the human race. It all comes down to the meaning of life in the end, and that is something I have no answer for.
They are only rights because someone decided they are rights. Intellectual property isn't an obvious extension of physical property, it just seems so now because it is taken for granted so much.
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Illegal is not necessarily the same as immoral.
If you were to destroy a couple of lives, you would kill the people containing them. Locking someone up in jail isn't destroying anything of such magnitude. Who knows, they may even benefit from it.
I feel that authorship of such items should be acknowledged, but apart from that I'm quite undecided. It all comes down to what has the most benefit to people generally. But to figure out what has the greatest benefit you would need to know the goal of the human race. It all comes down to the meaning of life in the end, and that is something I have no answer for.
They are only rights because someone decided they are rights. Intellectual property isn't an obvious extension of physical property, it just seems so now because it is taken for granted so much.
Can't you notice a joke when you see it?
Wierd, I was just looking at that for the first time this morning, a couple of hours before this story .. and now it's gone.
Is that Poly as in Polytechnic?
Hey, that's actually .. like, true.
I can't believe she's only on 6.5! She's the hottest chick I saw on there.
Now if only I had the damn link so you could all go and vote for her!
Offtopic?? It mentions GNU, Linux *and* Cygnus Solutions, who probably do some embedded stuff, or something. Yes.
I don't know whether to be flattered or annoyed at you copying my idea ...