Re: Copyrights and Wrongs, from The Netly News

[Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net>]

On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Mikhael Frieden wrote:
> 
>         Perhaps but there is something particularly obnoxious to the rule
> of law when scum like McVay being able to say to the effect, 'I know I am
> stealing from you. Sue me.' 
> 
>         It is most clearly a mockery of the law to find his pack of
> drooling toadies such as McC using the theft as a juvenile taunt, that some
> may set themselves above the law solely upon the grounds of the cost of
> civil action. 
> 
>         That is something simply not done in civilized society. 

I'll mention something else that is simply not done in civilized 
society:  forcefully preventing someone from peacefully using information 
that they have, simply because someone else supposedly "owns" that 
information.

I'm not making any comment about the people that were referred to above.  
I'm making a comment about copyright laws.

You cannot *own* an idea.

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