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Subject: [OM] Re: Before responding to Larry
From: Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:26:56 +0200
Le vendredi 21 Juillet 2006 21:08, keith_w a écrit :
> Jeff Keller wrote:
> > Adobe employees pay a price that must be higher than production costs but
> > get a very good discount. The internet can provide friends that you've
> > never met. Going back to school for a quarter can provide an alternative
> > approved discount on lots of things.
> >
> > Most choices are not forced by necessity. Often people choose to be
> > pirates because they want to be seen as setting an example for less
> > enlightened people.
>
> Why call them a cutesy name like "pirates?" Call them thieves. That's what
> a so-called pirate is. They take things that don't belong to them, offer no
> remuneration for their cache, and then brag about the fact that they are
> low life thieves.

No. That's not technicaly correct. Thieves take away a possession. You can't 
use it anymore once it's been stolen. Unlawful copies, on the other hand, 
don't deprive the copyright holder of his property, because he can still 
claim ownership, and act as a master.

That's why intellectual property is a State temporary privilege, it's not like 
the property of a 'real' thing. In the copy process the owner still has the 
use of the copied thing.

Don't be fooled by the hype organized by IP holders. This is not the same 
league.

-- 
Manuel Viet
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