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Originally Posted by Revmen  To me the big issue is not if it's immoral to break the copyright laws or that someone can't make a living from what they do. It's not a human right to make money. |
Huh? It's absolutely a right not to have your product taken without payment. It's not a right that anyone will actually want to consume what you make, but that's not remotely the issue here. HUGE numbers of people want to consume the product. The issue is that people are stealing it. That is a right that you and anyone else has under copyright law to prevent, but it's not being enforced.
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What I find interresting is that the music industry had a product they could control and due to new technology they can't anymore. So now they have to control the buyer instead of the product and that's where it gets scary. The suggestions for new laws has just been so undemocratic and orvellian it makes the moral/immoral part of downloading copyrighted material secondary. And the fact that the entertainment industry in US has so much money and power that they can buy a court victory makes me wonder how far we are willing to go to defend an industy's right to make money.  |
Your logic is what is Orwellian, as in Animal Farm type logic. What exactly new laws, that have actually been remotely seriously considered, do you consider so bad that it's worse than destroying complete industries just so people can get something quite inexpensive for free.