Re: Re: What kind of pirate am I?

But laws change if enough people disobey them. One way to look at the 
law is as an ambit claim put forward by the government: 'This is how we 
would like people to behave'. It can cope when only a few people are 
unwilling or unable to behave in that way, but when large numbers of 
people refuse to follow the law the only options are to keep quiet about 
it -- which works for a while -- or change the law. Keeping futile laws 
on the books only makes a government look stupid in the long run.

And of course governments have be seen to honour their international 
obligations. People don't.

Jon.

On 18/10/10 10:05, Brenna Lyons wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Daniel P. B. Smith<
> yahoogroups2006-wIRBk7EkA6JWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I no longer believe anyone's statement of what "the law" is when it comes
>> to copyright. I don't think anyone knows what the law is. I think a lot of
>> it is hard to generalize and hasn't been tested in court. And,
>> unfortunately, I think 99.44% of simple summaries of "what the law is" are
>> spin by someone who is grinding an axe one way or another. That applies to
>> _everyone,_ even the people who are telling me what I want to hear.
>>
>>
>>


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