On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:40:19 +0100 Peter Gannushkin <shkin@shkin.com> wrote:
1. There should not be a law which gives the actor, composer or whoever advantage on sculptor, painter, cook or even cleaner based only on their profession.
Fortunately, it has not been established that such a law exists, so the issue is moot.
2. Copying a CD cannot be qualified as theft. Whatever you call it - it is still not a theft.
To reference a minor sax player, I think we may be getting hung up on what the meaning of "is" is. A suggestion: we drop the word "theft" from either side of this discussion, and see where it goes once the trivial verbal contradiction is out of the way, -- | jzitt@josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | GPG: A4224EFA http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code / VoiceWAVE Silence: the John Cage Discussion List |