RE: [dvd-discuss] Latest RIAA Tactic- Impersonating a Police Officer

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

("attituted"?  oops ... s/attituted/attitude/)


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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hartman 
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:22 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Latest RIAA Tactic- Impersonating a Police
> Officer
> 
> 
> 
> Copyright infringement and the DMCA are two separate things.
> 
> The DMCA enforces the removal by technological means of use rights
> that we nonetheless retain under actual copyright law.  This bypasses
> the entire legal system and puts the force of law behind the whims
> of the media interest groups.  This is arguably unconstitutional in
> the way that "due process" is negated, and should be opposed by any
> and every means available.
> 
> Copyright is a long-standing and useful practice.  True, recent 
> legislation has (over)extended copyright to the point of idiocy, but 
> the concept of copyright itself is nonetheless worth 
> supporting.  I might
> support _limited_ "civil disobedience" regarding copyright 
> infringement
> if you put some sort of boundary on it, such as respecting a shorter
> term but anything over X years is considered "public domain" by your
> protest group, however the attituted conveyed by your question "Why 
> shouldn't anybody condone copyright infringement?" seems to go beyond
> that.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Richard M. Hartman
> hartman@onetouch.com
> 
> 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeme A Brelin [mailto:jeme@brelin.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 7:57 PM
> > To: Openlaw DMCA Forum
> > Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Latest RIAA Tactic- 
> Impersonating a Police
> > Officer
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> > > Well Jason...if you read this, you have either been 
> > misquoted or need to
> > > reread the Constitution - there is the due process clause 
> and while
> > > nobody should condone copyright infringement, there is 
> > still that little
> > > issue that must be addressed.
> > 
> > Why shouldn't anybody condone copyright infringement?
> > 
> > The state is condoning a few privateers' and robber barons' 
> efforts to
> > break what I see as moral and ethical law.  I condone the 
> > breaking of the
> > law when the law does not support my beliefs.
> > 
> > Civil disobedience is an important part of making changes to 
> > the status
> > quo.
> > 
> > J.
> > -- 
> >    -----------------
> >      Jeme A Brelin
> >     jeme@brelin.net
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> > 
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