[lbo-talk] length

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Thu Sep 9 20:37:53 PDT 2004


At 6:59 PM -0400 9/9/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Bill Bartlett wrote:
>
>>I believe I have a duty to resist copyright law by openly breaching it.
>
>you're not necessarily the one who's liable, man

Collective punishment? I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of US copyright law, it may be that other people can be liable for my actions, how so? In this country I am aware that a lot of people imagine copyright law include offenses which aren't actually there. Then there is some uncertainty about which jurisdictions apply over the internet. (It may be possible for you to avoid US copyright jurisdiction by basing the list on a server in another jurisdiction in a free country?) Maybe we need to clarify the situation.

But its definitely a problem when a law attempts to not only assign ownership rights to human ideas, as if some individuals who happen to have conjured them up out of a vacuum. I refuse to recognise such a preposterous restriction.


>but you're also the guy who thinks people should work so your dole
>check doesn't bounce

I'm one of the people who is with-holding my labour, giving you other weak bastards a better bargaining position, I think you mean. Lucky for you not everyone just caves in and take a job at whatever crap wages and conditions are on offer, or you would be working for $1 a month. And you have the cheek to think you are doing ME a favour!

Ingrate.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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