From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T15:04:33+09:00
Subject: Re: free pdf ebook

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:30:19AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:07:59AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> >>Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> >>>Really?  What type of crime is it.  Completely off topic, but it's 
> >>>interesting.
> >>Actually, it's theft, too, just not in the shoplifting-sense.
> >
> >The fact that it's illegal does not make it "theft".
> >
> The law handles it similar to a theft, over here. And it is a *kind* of 
> theft in any case (loss of revenue, for example, and I know stuff like 
> that doesn't translate into automatic loss of revenue!).

This is where my objection to the notion starts to stray into the area
of economic policy and larger political issues.

Assuming someone has a right to revenues, or at least a right to deny
revenues to others due to some kind of creative imprimatur, combines
aspects of fascism and socialism (both of which I find particularly
odious).  I'm more of a free market capitalist -- you don't have a right
to a revenue stream.  You only have a right to pursue revenue.  If you
fail to get it, the fact you have a crappy business model is not *my*
fault.


> 
> Still, I placed the IANAL, disclaimer, and I'm expressing difficult 
> stuff in layman's terms,  from a layman's perspective to boot.

IANAL, either.  So it goes.

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