[tdadams]

I still am, WE still are, the owner and originator of that right to copy.

The collective we have already rendered a decision in that matter and decided to provide a creator with the current copyright law. Your lengthy missive rationalizing theft notwithstanding, the law is the law.

You are not free to disregard the laws that the legislature has passed and the courts have upheld simply because you have a philosophical difference with it, not to mention an unjust monetary gain (yes, when you receive goods of value, and they're not freely given, you are receiving stolen property, a monetary gain).

As much as you'd like to assuage your guilt with sophistry and dubious logic, you're wrong. Make this argument of your in court and you'd get thrown out.

[bvw]

I am not the thief -- it is the people who have bought the law from my agents, corrupted. That 14 became 28 became 56 became 75 and now 100 years serves as what the "Declaration of Independence" calls "a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object". By the honor and grace of the general public is any orderly free society kept, the police and the Courts are far the lesser than the public's graces, mores and honor.

Laws have an absolute foundaion, a person can not ignore it, and take a shortcut that says "Whatever the Governement says, that is the full Law." That is a slovenly attitude.