Re: [dvd-discuss] various reactions to supreme court travesty

["D. C. Sessions" <dvd(at)lumbercartel.com>]

On Monday 20 January 2003 14:57, microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2003 at 7:32, D. C. Sessions wrote:
>
> From:           	"D. C. Sessions" <dvd@lumbercartel.com>
> To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] various reactions to supreme court
> travesty Date sent:      	Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:32:36 -0700
> Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
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> > On Sunday 19 January 2003 16:19, microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> > > One should not tempt fate...personally, as a former jury member and
> > > juror foreperson, I hope that my time is not spent dealing with this
> > > lamentable law the next time I am summoned  because as the ultimate
> > > decider of fact, there are far more important questions to decide
> > > involving judgment of the lives of others. I find it difficult to hold
> > > copyright infringment as a criminal offense greater than the
> > > strangulation  followed by being thrown down a flight of stairs of the
> > > last case I sat in judgement with others. Copyright offenses are pale
> > > things that border on insignificance.
> >
> > I'm not at all sure I agree.
> >
> > Too many people have died for freedom of speech and other
> > "thought freedoms" to blithely toss them out as worth less than
> > a single life.
>
> Many millions have already died for freedom of speech and are willing to
> die for it...but I don't know of anyone willing to die for
> copyright....copyright is not a freedom but a restraint....

Yeppers -- thus, the "New World Copyright Order" is a threat
to thought freedom, of the same cloth (if not quite so brown)
as totalitarianism and other oppressive orders.

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