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Gilles Tran wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed explanation. To be frank, I believe that right
> now this is more a political issue (in the general sense) than a
> technical one.
Agreed.
> This will last for a while, but the truth is that the whole
> copyright system, which made sense when all goods were tied to physical
> objects, has been gutted by digital technology and rendered useless.
Also agreed. I think that's the fundamental problem right there.
For example, you're probably technically violating copyright law by reading
this message. It's created copyrighted, and I haven't explicitly given you a
license to download a copy from the server. If I want google to not save a
copy of my web pages, I have to explicitly change what I write to include
instructions to google to tell them not to reproduce modified derivative
versions of my copyrighted works.
While I think artists should be paid for their work, suing search engines is
a hack. I'm also against things like regulating antihistamines because some
people make dangerous drugs from it. If you can't catch the actual
law-breaker, it's probably a bad law to punish the otherwise-legal precursors.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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