To: Sloth
Don't lie to yourself, either. Violation of copyright is a crime, but it is not theft of property. Copyright is a legal right separate from property rights -- there is no such thing as "intellectual property".
The courts disagree with your interpretation.
To: Bush2000
On several issues, in fact, and they are wrong on every one.
186 posted on
08/28/2002 7:32:15 AM PDT by
Sloth
To: Bush2000
Some do and some don't. The money side is the expansive rights area and we have to wait till that argument out of money overrreaches and exhausts itself -- which it now may have had. The rights of individuals are hard to argue against such money, and no barrister group has seemed yet to put a class action together to counter the tide of the IP polished shoes. The chip manufacturers have raised the most complaint, yet they are not a good surrogate for individuals and have and will go along with the IP monopolists if the money flows to them as well.
189 posted on
08/28/2002 8:10:53 AM PDT by
bvw
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