“Doesn’t anyone remember back in 2003 when Orrin Hatch suggested remotely destroying computers that illegally downloaded copyrighted material ?”
Sounds like a great idea. Too bad it was not codified.
It’s not unlike the cops seizing a getaway car from a bank robbery.
Illegal downloads are theft, by the book.
-PJ
Yes. Intellectual property is at tbe very heart of free enterprise!
The so-called conservatives who cry Free Market are actually libertines who do not respect the rule of law or the rights of others.
Failure to protect intellectual property is de facto communism.
Or "Buy the book," for copyright extend to written material, and it seems if we go "by the book" then everyone who saves a copy of a web page (apart from temporary cache) for their own personal viewing later, may be breaking the law. Even though the material copied would never be bought, or sold by the copier. But which copying can serve to make the publisher more well known.
I myself do not want to break the law, though over the years i have thousands of web pages saved for personal retrieval, but I also think that if you do not want readers to make copies of such then you should not make it public, just as if you do not want your picture taken then you should not go out in public. And if viewers can save TV programs, then why not material on the web? However, back up copies of such would be another issue, though i think these should be allowed due to the the vulnerable state of electronic data, and i have some.