Actually the point of the second amendment was that the Founders were aware that no government could guarantee freedom. THerefore when a threat arises each man would be equipped to deal with it. At no point did they write into the constituition a provision for limiting freedom in exchange for security.
What exactly are you giving your freedom up for? what good is it doing? You can't just say, "Security" because that's an abstract concept. No one has proven to me how giving up my rights is going to provide me with any security. The government is going to fail and if we give up our freedom it will eventually become more dangerous than the terrorists.
Remember this is the same government that has tried and failed to keep drugs out of this country for the past 60 to 70 years. How in the hell are they going to keep out Terrorists? They won't. We will be hit again and we will go through this same hysterical process. There is no easy solution, and giving up your freedom produces no magical results. It doesn't cause ANYTHING to happen. You just lose your freedom.
not to be obnoxious but yes I do believe a free market exists. and yes laws can be changed, but it is hardly reasonable for the business model of any industry to be enshrined in law. If they can't make money by creating a product that attracts consumers they should go out of business. That's what a free market is. Whether one currently exists or not is up to debate. I just disagree with the idea that the government has any reason to step in here, either on "our" side or the RIAA's. Yes copyright is around because of the law and I believe that violators(for profit) should be prosecuted. But if I dupe a white stripes CD for my own use or my brothers I feel that's my right. Left on their own I believe that someone will figure out a way to produce revenue from file sharing and voila there's your free market. It doesn't need to be a "natural law" to work, it's just how things happen when people are left to their own devices.
seriously, why must this always be handled via legislation? We live in a free market society right, if there is a viable business model here it will be found and worked out. It should be obvious to everyone that this genie is out of the bottle. all this "solution" would do would be to result in a tax on internet use applied to everyone "who benefit(s) from the availability of this content." Essentially this is the same thing as putting a surcharge on blank CDs. Also since it's legislated it would be difficult to change when we discover the bugs.
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Actually the point of the second amendment was that the Founders were aware that no government could guarantee freedom. THerefore when a threat arises each man would be equipped to deal with it. At no point did they write into the constituition a provision for limiting freedom in exchange for security. What exactly are you giving your freedom up for? what good is it doing? You can't just say, "Security" because that's an abstract concept. No one has proven to me how giving up my rights is going to provide me with any security. The government is going to fail and if we give up our freedom it will eventually become more dangerous than the terrorists. Remember this is the same government that has tried and failed to keep drugs out of this country for the past 60 to 70 years. How in the hell are they going to keep out Terrorists? They won't. We will be hit again and we will go through this same hysterical process. There is no easy solution, and giving up your freedom produces no magical results. It doesn't cause ANYTHING to happen. You just lose your freedom.
not to be obnoxious but yes I do believe a free market exists. and yes laws can be changed, but it is hardly reasonable for the business model of any industry to be enshrined in law. If they can't make money by creating a product that attracts consumers they should go out of business. That's what a free market is. Whether one currently exists or not is up to debate. I just disagree with the idea that the government has any reason to step in here, either on "our" side or the RIAA's. Yes copyright is around because of the law and I believe that violators(for profit) should be prosecuted. But if I dupe a white stripes CD for my own use or my brothers I feel that's my right. Left on their own I believe that someone will figure out a way to produce revenue from file sharing and voila there's your free market. It doesn't need to be a "natural law" to work, it's just how things happen when people are left to their own devices.
seriously, why must this always be handled via legislation? We live in a free market society right, if there is a viable business model here it will be found and worked out. It should be obvious to everyone that this genie is out of the bottle.
all this "solution" would do would be to result in a tax on internet use applied to everyone "who benefit(s) from the availability of this content." Essentially this is the same thing as putting a surcharge on blank CDs. Also since it's legislated it would be difficult to change when we discover the bugs.