[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 1/29/2012 2:39 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<fg4FbdAV$Y2j at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> cornelius at eisner.decus.org (George Cornelius) writes:
>
>>> Right, it's a crime, plain and simple.
>>
>> In most countries, perhaps.  Even, on the surface, in the U.S.
>>
>> [BEGIN WELL OFF TOPIC REMARK]
>>
>> There is, however, a constitutional guarantee of freedom of
>> speech,
>
> Note: this post is not a direct reply to the quoted lines, but rather a
> general reply to various posts in this thread.
>
> Precisely because I value free speech extremely highly I am highly
> critical of people abusing it, for example claiming that it is some sort
> of human right to be able to download the latest Lady Gaga song without
> paying for it.
>
> In general, not everything involving communication (which to a large
> part is the internet) necessarily has anything to do with free speech.
>
>> and many of us believe that certain provisions of, say,
>> the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, run roughshod over that
>> guarantee and might not in truth survive a constitutional
>> challenge.
>
> If so, then a court should rule that it is unconstitutional.  I think
> that in such cases it is better to target the offending parts, rather
> than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  It is the "correct"
> thing to do and has the added advantage that it is more likely to
> succeed.
>
>> It's one thing to say you cannot copy a protected
>> work; it's another to claim you cannot publish a means by which
>> copyright protection can be circumvented.
>
> True, they are different, but depending on laws and court decisions,
> both might be illegal.  It is one thing to kill a person and another to
> pay someone to do so, but that does not mean that both cannot be illegal
> just because they are different.
>
> Just to be clear: in this case, we are not talking about a copyright
> violation, but rather something else.
>

I fear that some people are utterly lacking the capacity to understand 
the concept of "intellectual property"!  This includes copyright on 
anything you write; e.g. a novel, a text-book, an original drawing or 
painting, music that you composed, your performance of a piece of music, 
a patented invention, etc.

The above paragraph is Copyright 2012 by Richard B. Gilbert
Permission is hereby granted to use the text provided that proper 
attribution is given!