Sooner or later someone will try to censor everything, breathe now while you
still can.

P.S. Good old Benjamin freely "stole" many other people's ideas and words.
That's why we have copyrights now, someone figured out a way of
redistributing other people's "proprietary data" in new and inventive ways
(e.g. napster), and other people figured out how to abuse it. Protecting
artistic creations didn't come into place until the Berne convention in
1886. Before that there were no universal copyright protections. Everything
was "open source". 

Best Regards,
Brian

Brian Densmore <mailto:DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com>  

 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley Miller [mailto:bradmiller@dslonramp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:58 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: We deon't need no stinkin' subject lines
> 
> 
> At 12:32 PM 2/27/01 -600, you wrote:
> >So I guess that makes Benjamin Franklin not just a great 
> womanizer, but
> also the grandfather of copyright infringement.  Maybe we 
> should hold Jon
> Lech Johansen (DeCSS fame) and Napster up in such high regard?
> >
> >Doug Ramsey
> 
> How many of us hold Smith-Wesson responsible for gun deaths?  
>  What about
> blaming Ford/Honda/Chevy/DiamlerChrysler because you can't 
> drive?   I don't
> see what the big deal is with putting down Napster -- it's a 
> tool.  What
> YOU do with it is what is legal/ethical.  They can't 
> legislate or control
> your usage.   
> 
> For instance, last night they had on a news blurb about a drug dealer
> simulation program.  Is it right?  Is it legal?   If people 
> begin telling
> other  people what they can and can't produce, is that right?   Hmm?
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
> 
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