From: Hermit (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 11:56:37 MDT
Judging by the insanity coming out of Washington these days, I'm sure that his masters would prefer to make piracy a death-penalty offense. When you are are as completely dependendent on the media-moguls as Orrin Hatch, then this kind of loonacy is no doubt the "logical" outcome. Yet, if you asked Orrin Hatch, off the record, if he would prefer to pay for software and music, or receive it free, I'm sure his answer would be that he would rip it off without a question but only if he thought that he wouldn't get caught. That being his nature, he thinks that others should be prevented from doing so.
Meanwhile some questions remain. The people screaming for this level of protection appear to be attempting to tilt the world down a slippery slope of their own making. It was Jack Valenti of the MPAA who said, "The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone." Yet colorful simile or not, the "American film producer" seems to have done rather well since then. More to the point, has the protection of copyright holders (as opposed to artists) actually contributed one whit to the constitutional justification for copyright? [The Congress shall have power] "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
Hermit
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