Re: Iceweasel and DRM
Please continue on d-community-offtopic.
Thanks
Zenaan
On 5/23/14, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2014 22:31:18 -0400
> Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>> > ...
>> >>>> Copyright violations are rampant on the web.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you for refraining from calling that piracy.
>> >>
>> >> OK, since you insist, I'll call it what it is - piracy.
>> >
>> > I didn't think you were _such_ a contrarian. Proved me wrong.
>> >
>>
>> I'm not. What you describe is piracy.
>>
>> > You're also firmly aligned with copyright industry rhetoric. Oh
>> > well, I seriously thought you were above that...
>> >
>>
>> Unlike you, I am not above the law. And I have created intellectual
>> property in the past which is copyrighted (unlike you, obviously).
>> And I protect my copyrights.
>
> Don't bother arguing with these idiots Jerry. I'll bet you dollars to
> donuts they never took the time to write, edit, format, produce, and
> market a 100K word book to help them feed their children. They probably
> have salary jobs, and if they get laid off, they get unemployment.
>
> Here's the thing Jerry: With all their yelling, I never once heard any
> of these 150 decibel anti-DRM clowns promise not to give or sell a copy
> of an author's work to someone else. I'm not talking about right of
> first sale, which I assume they know nothing about, I'm talking about
> buying (or grabbing from a torrent) a copy of somebody's work, keeping
> it, but making copies of it and giving the copies to others. After all,
> according to them, once they bought it, they can do anything they want
> with it, right?
>
> It's not their problem that Article 1, section 8, paragraph 8 of the
> US Constitution provides authors and inventors a limited time exclusive
> right to the author's or inventor's writings and discoveries. It's
> not their problem that copyright was a part of English law long before
> the US constitution was written. It's not their problem that copyright
> is part of the Berne convention, accepted and enforced by most modern
> nations.
>
> It's not these clowns' problem if someone spent between 3 and 18 months
> writing a book, in hope of feeding their children. It's not their
> problem if the author must compete with cheap or zero cost exact copies
> of the work he spent so long making, because the clowns are
> distributing copies like the autumn leaves. It's not their problem
> if the author's children don't eat. The clowns got theirs.
>
> It's kind of ironic, isn't it? If they don't like DRM (and who does?),
> they should blame those who unauthorizedly distribute (or possess
> unauthorized distributions). DRM was made to prevent these activities,
> due to high number of freeloaders wanting authors to write for free. If
> they don't like DMCA (and who does?), blame the unauthorized
> distributors. If they don't like the obscene life+70 copyright periods
> of many nations including the US, blame the unauthorized distributors,
> who ceded the moral high ground to Disney and Sonny Bono and that crowd
> by snatching money right out of authors' pocketbooks.
>
> Jerry, if the clowns who have been arguing with you had a single
> testicle between them, they'd do with Stallman does: Simply promise
> never to buy, procure, nor distribute, nonfree content. Stallman
> *never* makes unauthorized copies of nonfree content. But that's not
> their style: they whine about buying a book and then not being able to
> give copies to others: or at least they never forswore making copies and
> distributing to others.
>
> The sad thing is, Jerry, although I hate the fact that the US law
> provides for a judgment of $150K *per unauthorizedly obtained work*
> against those who unauthorizedly copy, or receive such copies, the
> arrogant disregard of stealing other peoples' opportunity to make money,
> and their pride in not knowing the law, make me hope it happens to them.
>
> They're clowns Jerry: ignore them.
>
> SteveT
> Steve Litt
> Author: Troubleshooting: Tools, Tips and Techniques
> Author: Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist
> Author: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> Author: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business
> Author: Rapid Learning For the 21st Century
> Author: Thriving in Tough Times
> Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
> Author: Rules of the Happiness Highway
> All but the first two written and produced using Free Software
>
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