01-26-2012, 09:49 PM
The bottom line is the application of copyright law has been surreptitiously changed and they are trying to apply it in ways it was never meant to be applied. Copyright was about protecting against lost profits (BTW stealth technology would fall under patent law 
). If I want to rent a movie and show it everybody in the neighborhood, by projecting it up on a bedsheet tied to my tree, I am not breaking a copyright law, if however I start charging five bucks a head for people to come inside my house and watch the movie on my new big screen TV, I am in violation of copyright law. What they are doing now is trying to make copyright law pertain to situation where there is no money involved. The number of people a file is shared with is incidental to copyright, however if I charge just one person one penny for the file, I am violating copyright.
This is not business as usual, they are trying to make copyright apply in situations it never has before, and to mean something it has never meant before, and to do so while claiming this has always been the case. They are lying.
Read the language people "conspiring to commit". Not committing! There is a reason it is worded that way.
). If I want to rent a movie and show it everybody in the neighborhood, by projecting it up on a bedsheet tied to my tree, I am not breaking a copyright law, if however I start charging five bucks a head for people to come inside my house and watch the movie on my new big screen TV, I am in violation of copyright law. What they are doing now is trying to make copyright law pertain to situation where there is no money involved. The number of people a file is shared with is incidental to copyright, however if I charge just one person one penny for the file, I am violating copyright.This is not business as usual, they are trying to make copyright apply in situations it never has before, and to mean something it has never meant before, and to do so while claiming this has always been the case. They are lying.
Read the language people "conspiring to commit". Not committing! There is a reason it is worded that way.
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.