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To: dheretic; Bush2000
"Or you are sued into bankrupcy by an industry trade group trying to use a corrupt law to supress your first amendment right to publish any writing or artistic work that does not endanger the national security of the United States or cause a clear and present danger to public safety. Copyright infringement does neither."

This is sad.

Are you aware, child, that if your next-door neighbor steals your car, rapes your mother, or shoots your father, he has not "endanger[ed] the national security of the United States or cause a clear and present danger to public safety"?

Remember, I didn't say he became a career criminal. He merely went after your family.

Before you puke out some more ejecta, remember that the courts have driven a broad distinction between "public" and individual matters, i.e., the police have a mission to maintain public safety in general, but are not obligated to protect my safety. There have been test cases (i.e., the woman in NY who was killed after she was turned down for a CCW -- her mother sued, and lost).

I am really sad that so-called conservatives (which is what libberoids masquerade as in order to avoid being kicked off a conservative forum) would take such a *clearly* anarchist/marxist posture WRT property rights.

59 posted on 08/17/2002 3:01:29 PM PDT by Don Joe
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To: Don Joe
Are you aware, child, that if your next-door neighbor steals your car, rapes your mother, or shoots your father, he has not "endanger[ed] the national security of the United States or cause a clear and present danger to public safety"?

What part of "Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech." You only make yourself look like an idiot by bringing violent crime into a debate about free speech. Violent crime is not speech, nor is it art. Writing an essay on the flaws and potential ways to exploit said flaws of a DRM system is a form of speech. If it neither endangers national security nor puts the public at risk of harm then it is protected by the first amendment. In a society that actually follows its Constitution, my right to publish the flaws in your software and potential means (ie not code, but maybe an algorithm) to exploit them outweigh your IP protection.

60 posted on 08/17/2002 3:40:56 PM PDT by dheretic
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