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Old 14-05-12, 18:58   #2
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Default Re: Microsoft Backs Torrent 'Blocker' Software

More of the same ol' same ol'. While I don't do torrents, there are literally millions that do. Once you take the step that some forms of free speech aren't allowed, it's a shorter step to other forms aren't allowed. Now that M$ has flexed it's muscle with doing some of that limiting, the copywrong gang will be on them like shine on gold to do more.

File sharing, ever since it's inception, has grown bigger and spread out into various methods. There are enough ways to share that no one solution is going to put the genie back in the bottle. Between the idea that the internet was built to route around damage and the idea that clients and methods to share can be devised in a few years tailored to meet special conditions is why the copywrong gang has never won.

The copywrong gang has this idea that it is a lack of education that sharing is wrong. They are bucking the trend that is taught to pretty much each child as they grow up that sharing is the proper way to deal with close friends. Were it education that was the problem, all this would have been settled back in the days of Edisons' wax cylinder player and player pianos. Copyright is un-natural. It will never be accepted by society as a whole as right and proper as it is against it's learning from an early age.

In the end there is no way to actually make people quit sharing. An example of that happened back in the days of when there were unions by class of labor, called guilds. There was the button makers' guild that had the lock on the making of buttons, how they should look, and who got to make them. But the clothing makers got to thinking they should have to pay such outrageous sums to the button makers to have fasteners. So they made their own out of cloth for near nothing. This put the button makers union in a tissy. So much so they go the law that allowed them to go into peoples houses to look in their wardrobes to see if they had clothes with cloth buttons and confiscate them if they were found.

Even the threat of death has not been enough to stop sharing involving copyright. It's simply impossible to make people see this as wrong. If it is impossible then it tells you the law is wrong as laws are made to help society make civilization work. That functions as well as greased wheels as long as the law and what society sees as right an proper coincide. When they part going in the same direction, society will ignore bad laws. Looking in history will render forth tons of examples if you can't put a few from off the top of your head.

M$'s idea of limiting will work no better than anyone elses over time.
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