[plug] Re: "stealing"?

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 17 November 2002 09:57 am, Colin Muller wrote:
>> Copyright infringement == stealing.

> I'll accept an argument for respecting copyright on the basis that,
> well, it's the way our societies currently do things, and until or
> unless we come up with something better, it's one of the things we
> observe and respect for the sake of social and economic order. I
> observe copyrights myself, for that sort of reason.

Yes. And it's currently enshrined in our law.

> But copyright is
> just one of the possible ways in which we could deal with intellectual
> property while maintaining social and economic order and producing
> mighty works of intellectual production; and some of the greatest
> works of the human intellect have been produced under conditions in
> which copyright played no role.

Yes.

Cheers; Leon