The thing is that all these problems are systematic and can be found in every other "first-world" capitalist nation. They existed in the US at the time of WWI, at the Vietnam War, and through today. As long as people put hope in the system that creates these flaws, that necessitates a ruling elite who are socially and, more importantly, economically above the rest of a country, none of these problems are going to disappear. It does not fucking matter whether the Republicans, the Democrats, or an independent party are at the helm -- all politicians are crooks, and the if we all don't embrace "anti-"politics and reject the system and its overlords, all this partisan political masturbation is simply spitting in the wind.
This would hold suit if the child was stealing a material object that used commodities and labour to produce. However, electronic information is able to be reproduced with neither of the two above, and thus is not causing the RIAA to lose any money, but instead to not gain any money. To demand that reproducing electronic information is in fact stealing completely negates all economics, and completely crosses the line in definition of ownership.
"OSS isn't free, you need 25 billion CDs just to install a popular OS!"
Or you could just netinst.;-)
Congrats to the Debian team who put this together, and onward into Etch!
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The thing is that all these problems are systematic and can be found in every other "first-world" capitalist nation. They existed in the US at the time of WWI, at the Vietnam War, and through today. As long as people put hope in the system that creates these flaws, that necessitates a ruling elite who are socially and, more importantly, economically above the rest of a country, none of these problems are going to disappear. It does not fucking matter whether the Republicans, the Democrats, or an independent party are at the helm -- all politicians are crooks, and the if we all don't embrace "anti-"politics and reject the system and its overlords, all this partisan political masturbation is simply spitting in the wind.
This would hold suit if the child was stealing a material object that used commodities and labour to produce. However, electronic information is able to be reproduced with neither of the two above, and thus is not causing the RIAA to lose any money, but instead to not gain any money. To demand that reproducing electronic information is in fact stealing completely negates all economics, and completely crosses the line in definition of ownership.
"OSS isn't free, you need 25 billion CDs just to install a popular OS!" Or you could just netinst. ;-)
Congrats to the Debian team who put this together, and onward into Etch!
Well, I'm a Marxist, so I guess the gig is up! ;-)