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Only if you are willing to frame "providing a directory of people willing to share 1s and 0s with each other" as equivalent to holding someone up at gun/sword p
by mSparks 10y ago
Only if you are willing to frame "providing a directory of people willing to share 1s and 0s with each other" as equivalent to holding someone up at gun/sword point on the high seas.
Many of my peers have come to the conclusion making such an equivalence is the result of corruption and vested interests in causing damage to society at large.
I think its just the result of total incompetence and sheep like behaviour.
Either way its definitely caused now irreparable damage to what was once considered the worlds best legal system.
And if you don't believe, just ask yourself when the UK legal system last made a decision that people at large considered demonstrated how good a system it is (rather than the exact opposite)
- witty_username 10y ago> Only if you are willing to frame "providing a directory of people willing to share 1s and 0s with each other" as equivalent to holding someone up at gun/sword point on the high seas. You're misinterpreting the word piracy. Nobody said this.
- mSparks 10y agodefine:piracy ˈpʌɪrəsi noun 1. the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea. 2. the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work. _____ The UK courts have extended that already to : 3. Providing an index dedicated to people reproducing another's work without authorisation. As per all the great bookmarks here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_United_Kingdom#Court_ordered_implementations_targeting_copyright_and_trademark_infringement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_th...
- barrkel 10y agoDissembling won't get you far in court.
- witty_username 10y agoGreat grandparent post did not mean the first meaning.
- 7952 10y agoAs a geek I spend every waking moment believeing that a stream of 1s and 0s can have real world significance. Those bits have real meaning that should be respected. You cannot just ignore basic ethics and law on the basis of how the information happens to be transferred from one brain to another. Surely we should want everyone to understand this in order to get some protections from government spying.
- mSparks 10y agoA bit OT, however, I think it's worth pointing out: ->order to get some protections from government spying. I suspect the governments who actively make their own citizens vulnerable to spying by other governments probably won't be around that much longer. The kind of incompetence and arrogance that comes with making your citizenship vulnerable to foreign influence to protect the status quo in the name of "national security" has never ever ended well for the status quo.