POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Copying isn't theft : Re: Copying isn't theft Server Time
29 Sep 2024 23:27:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Copying isn't theft  
From: Darren New
Date: 15 May 2009 12:20:26
Message: <4a0d964a$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> somebody wrote:
>> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
>> news:4a0cb7e8@news.povray.org...
>>
>>> What does the copyright holder own,
>> Copyright.
>>
>>> as a possession, that I'm taking away
>>> when I copy a CD?
>> You are taking away his right to control (of how / by who / under what
>> conditions... etc) his work can be copied. That is, you are taking away
>> *whatever priviledges* were granted to him *in* the copyright.
> 
> So if I copy a CD, I take away his right to control how his work can be
> copied, and then everyone can start copying, because he doesn't have the
> right to control it anymore? What the hell?

And of course, since you've taken that right to control away, he can't come 
after you legally for making copies, because he doesn't control it any more. 
Yes?

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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