RE: Torrent Exchange Protocol
"Marcel Popescu" <[email protected]>
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> From: Mike Ravkine [mailto:[email protected]] > a) These sites were using the BT protocol to spread copyrighted > information. The copyright owners came and shut them down. What's wrong > here again? The idea of copyright. > There are many arguments one could use against copyright (such as it's > extention to lifetime+infinity), but as it sits it is a law. Which is rather irrelevant. Slavery was a law even a while after most people decided it was a bad idea. Jim Crow laws were laws even a while after most people decided they were a bad idea. Really bad laws are almost never changed "within the system", they are almost always changed because people break them. > I believe > that it's a law that does substantially more damage then it does good, > but that's for the supreme court to eventually decide. Only for non-thinking americans (pardon the pleonasm). Marcel Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/