selling a used disc is not a crime because you payed to have acces to information stored on the disc, and you will lose that access once you sell the disc. or so the say.
because i'm used to ripping my friends' disc when they come home, and i'm sure i'd be able to sell a disc i own without losing the musics within (ripping, casting, copying, etc). therefore those juridical paranoids should as well forbid it too. they should also forbid libraries from lending books: i could (and actually did) scan some chapters, books, covers, etc. without paying anything for it.
to a point i ask: what would i be able to do? i can tape my favorite telvision programs, can't i? or photograph my favorite landscapes (ever thought of a nation protecting landscapes as their copyright?). you know, i can write down anything i hear or read, from an important academic essay to a politic speech.
the question remains: is it really good that people lose information, so that i'd be able to sell them back? is it really important (and possible) to prevent people from just sharing information (be it music, video, text, etc)?
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selling a used disc is not a crime because you payed to have acces to information stored on the disc, and you will lose that access once you sell the disc. or so the say.
because i'm used to ripping my friends' disc when they come home, and i'm sure i'd be able to sell a disc i own without losing the musics within (ripping, casting, copying, etc). therefore those juridical paranoids should as well forbid it too. they should also forbid libraries from lending books: i could (and actually did) scan some chapters, books, covers, etc. without paying anything for it.
to a point i ask: what would i be able to do? i can tape my favorite telvision programs, can't i? or photograph my favorite landscapes (ever thought of a nation protecting landscapes as their copyright?). you know, i can write down anything i hear or read, from an important academic essay to a politic speech.
the question remains: is it really good that people lose information, so that i'd be able to sell them back? is it really important (and possible) to prevent people from just sharing information (be it music, video, text, etc)?