The difference is that Federal judges are not directly elected by the people and are thus not directly accountable. Often, they have long or even lifetime appointments and cannot be fired.
And those that are recording these movies are stealing more than just a $10 movie. In the grand scheme of things they're stealing millions of dollars from our nation's economy.
While it's still a violation of copyright to do so, only the most rabid MPAA apologists would say with a straight face that camcorder copies of movies "steal" "millions of dollars from our nation's economy." These Haliburtonesque figures assume that large numbers of people willing to spend hours or days downloading one of these copies and watch it on a computer monitor would have bought a ticket and attended the movie, which is a risible assumption at best.
I don't know whether I should be happy that judges seem to be tapping the brakes on the kleptocracy, or sad that the judiciary is interfering with regulatory bodies appointed by (nominally) elected officials.
I think Taco is amazingly tolerant of the idiots on this site. If it were my site, I'd delete all the crap postings.
If Taco did what you're describing, I don't think so many people would have a beef. At k5, where, as you said, the "lunatics run the place," Rusty reserves the right to and actually does delete crap posts. But no one there bitches about it. Why? Perhaps because he admits that's what he does.
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The difference is that Federal judges are not directly elected by the people and are thus not directly accountable. Often, they have long or even lifetime appointments and cannot be fired.
While it's still a violation of copyright to do so, only the most rabid MPAA apologists would say with a straight face that camcorder copies of movies "steal" "millions of dollars from our nation's economy." These Haliburtonesque figures assume that large numbers of people willing to spend hours or days downloading one of these copies and watch it on a computer monitor would have bought a ticket and attended the movie, which is a risible assumption at best.
I don't know whether I should be happy that judges seem to be tapping the brakes on the kleptocracy, or sad that the judiciary is interfering with regulatory bodies appointed by (nominally) elected officials.
If Taco did what you're describing, I don't think so many people would have a beef. At k5, where, as you said, the "lunatics run the place," Rusty reserves the right to and actually does delete crap posts. But no one there bitches about it. Why? Perhaps because he admits that's what he does.