Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Western Digital DRM'd Hard Drive Won't Let You Share MP3, DivX ... Or Impulse
>> Tracker
>>
> Roy, when will you stop advocating theft of people's music and video
> creations. "Sharing" is mostly illegal.
MOSTLY
> You want it? Buy it. Simple.
Buy something you got given freely by the owner just for the privilige of
moving it about a little bit? Fuck off.
DRM is guilty until proven innocent.
There are hundreds of reasons people might want to copy legitimate MP3s,
divx, xvid, mp4, etc.
Home movies... Sorry, you're infringing on your own copyright so we can't
allow you to do that anymore.
> It is illegal to "share" on Linux as it is elsewhere.
No, it is as LEGAL to share on linux as elsewhere.
Not all files are copyright infringements.
A lot are but the exceptions make this kinda thing totally unacceptable.
Like talk of banning bittorrent because the bulk of its traffic is tv and
film copyright infringement. If it has a legit use, which bittorrent does,
it's wrong to attempt a ban.
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