[Don Joe]

"If a corporation did it, it would be patent infringment with a slap on the wrist. If a person does it, it is cyber terrorism with manadatory prison sentences. Why should corporations enjoy more freedom than citizens?"

Do you really believe that crap, or are you just typing out of your copy of the Communist Manifesto?

A "slap on the wrist"? Oh, there go my damn sides again!

[AaronAnderson]

it sure ain't a prison sentence, just a cash payment from the pockets of the stock holders. Billions of dollars have been stolen by corporate thieves but few if any will ever be punished for it, let alone sent to prison for it. However, if Don Joe reverse engineers a bad encryption code to let consumers enjoy their copies of The Last Action hero on Linux, their prefered operating system, Joe goes up the river for years. Of course, Don Joe believes we need to go back to the robber barron period where consumer rights were non existant and the trusts ruled the market, so I am sure this point will be lost on him.

[dheretic]

Do you really believe that crap, or are you just typing out of your copy of the Communist Manifesto?

People like you are the reason why few intelligent people take the threat of Communism seriously. You see Communists under every rock, in every tree and around every corner. It never occurs to people like you that the fight of Capitalism versus Communism is irrelevant. It has always been a fight between liberalism and authoritarianism. Most people lean toward the latter, not the former. Your corporation-worship puts you squarely into the latter. Every institution in society must be held to the same ethical standards. Corporations exist because the states allow them to. They are a way of getting around the idea of the owners *gasp* actually being accountable for the actions of their companies.