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Re: Erm by Zseni 02/05/2003, 2:32pm PST
Ray, of Light wrote:

Zseni wrote:


Apparently it's only semi-illegal; nobody bothers you if you only trade in stuff unlicensed in your country of origin. There are lots of these little businesses and a big "WHAT GOT LICENSED TODAY" list they all work off of.


  1. It's "semi-illegal" insofar as there's a law against it, with felony consequences, which you may avoid if you can remain in the overlapping blind spots of moneyed interests and the anti-porno-cartoon people.
  2. Morally, your position is much worse. Copyright infringement is supposed to be a fraternistic, share-and-share-alike enterprise; seeking a profit from what you got for free makes you what's called "shit-eating scum", and should you wake up to find that Disney has licensed half of your catalogue before you had a chance to pull it, you'll not get even a slashdot story and sympathy from your customers and colleagues, much less a legal defense fund or any other form of solidarity.


In other news, I wish you good luck in your venture.

Ray!


I thought about what you said, about the moral position thing, and I suppose the matter is not as clear-cut as I'd like it to be.

But blah blah blah, snipped list of excuses. Long story short: I'm not selling the shows, I'm selling the downloading, burning, and indexing. Everyone's doing it, man.. Still, I'll remember this next time I'm highhorsing it back to town.
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