On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Marty Hayes <9ball[_at_]hostsite.net> wrote:
>
> It appears it doesn't matter to you that the activities in question
> may not right *ethically*... it only matters that you won't be held
> legally responsible. If that's your position as a lawyer, then I am
> truly saddened. What saddens me even more is your interpretation of
> the questions that were asked.
[...]
> All I can say is, no wonder the world is the way it is today. No
> respect for anyone else or for what is *right* anymore.
Talking about ethics, to be honest, I have no feeling at all that copying a work of which the author is long dead, or which has been out of print is wrong -- maybe my ethics is wrong, but that is an completely different issue.
I only comply with copyright acts because of the harsh penalties they threaten with -- not because I think it is wrong -- and I think that is true for a lot of people. I actually believe that copying a work is not wrong at all, but that copyright is wrong in that it forbids me to do something I would like to do, and threatens me with the terror of harsh penalties and the power of a large police force and iron bars.
Yes, I try to do what is *right*, and hope one day copyright can be the subject of a referendum -- to make it agree with what many people really feel is *ethical*.
Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl>
Received on Wed Apr 12 2000 - 21:44:20 GMT
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