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Fundamentally, people like copying things, and some forms of copying are restricted by law. So either the law is bad, or they are a bad person. that's a static
by andrewcooke 14y ago
Fundamentally, people like copying things, and some forms of copying are restricted by law. So either the law is bad, or they are a bad person.
that's a static analysis. isn't it more likely that society is changing in various ways, that law naturally lags the changes, and that the result is a mess as society negotiates with itself to find an appropriate adjustment?
- codex 14y agoI think that could well be the case in reality--but you wouldn't know it from most discussions on the topic, and I don't think that's how people people form their initial views, or why they continue to maintain logically incorrect arguments in their own minds. In some respects, I think that some copyright denialists behave similarly to those who try to argue that the U.S. has no power to tax incomes because of various technicalities in the ratification of the appropriate constitutional amendment [1]. These people do not hold their to their positions because they are lawyers. They hold to them because they don't want to pay income tax. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendment_arguments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendme...