condmca
February 3rd, 2003, 10:53 PM
The Beauty of America
The beauty of America is that we fight for our freedoms and the righteous always seem to win.
When the little guy can't protect himself, the big guy takes the fight to the bully.
When little people get crushed along the way in dave's war against piracy, isn't it up to others to step in and stop the cruelty? How much longer will dave be allowed to trample individual rights in his corporate effort to avoid responsibilty? It is Dave's responsibility to secure his product after all. Likewise, it is the job of ALL media companies to secure their products by co-opting the very same technology they're so afraid of. If copy protection on CD's needs to change every four-months to secure royalties for the creators, so be it! Please don't tell the innovator that he or she must stop innovating because some media venture assumes the general public at large will act in accordance with its perception of a perfect world. If technology exists, it will get hacked eventually because that is what happens in Capitalism. For dave to ignore this simple rule is a testament to what is fundamentally wrong with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
The DMCA was enacted to reward media companies with everlasting royalties to their creations, technological or otherwise, through Lawsuits and the assumption that the creation was unique unto itself.
In other words, it assumes that an invention or creation would never exist without the creator's help.
Along this same line of reasoning, dave should certainly not be allowed to collect any revenue he has not otherwise earned. In order for Dave to continue collecting settlements, shouldn't dave first prove he can win at least one judgement in court against a simple end user?
E.O.R.
conDMCA
The beauty of America is that we fight for our freedoms and the righteous always seem to win.
When the little guy can't protect himself, the big guy takes the fight to the bully.
When little people get crushed along the way in dave's war against piracy, isn't it up to others to step in and stop the cruelty? How much longer will dave be allowed to trample individual rights in his corporate effort to avoid responsibilty? It is Dave's responsibility to secure his product after all. Likewise, it is the job of ALL media companies to secure their products by co-opting the very same technology they're so afraid of. If copy protection on CD's needs to change every four-months to secure royalties for the creators, so be it! Please don't tell the innovator that he or she must stop innovating because some media venture assumes the general public at large will act in accordance with its perception of a perfect world. If technology exists, it will get hacked eventually because that is what happens in Capitalism. For dave to ignore this simple rule is a testament to what is fundamentally wrong with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
The DMCA was enacted to reward media companies with everlasting royalties to their creations, technological or otherwise, through Lawsuits and the assumption that the creation was unique unto itself.
In other words, it assumes that an invention or creation would never exist without the creator's help.
Along this same line of reasoning, dave should certainly not be allowed to collect any revenue he has not otherwise earned. In order for Dave to continue collecting settlements, shouldn't dave first prove he can win at least one judgement in court against a simple end user?
E.O.R.
conDMCA