Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2010/07

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] We've gone astray
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:47:52 -0400

On 07/07/2010 06:18 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Tom Mosher wrote:
>> Is there a way to steer this thread away from copyrights, natural law,?Red Hat,
>> business models, and iTunes, and back toward klarinet music?
>
> This is an important, confusing, controversial, and (in many ways)
> non-intuitive topic. Too many people are violating the law without even
> realizing they are doing so, and that's a very dangerous situation. It
> seems to me this is a perfectly relevant topic for this list.

... and too many people are willing to accept the law as-is without
fully considering the consequences or the alternatives.

Many, possibly most people, believe that personal use copying is legal
so long as copies are not sold. You see this all over YouTube in the
kind of notices put up on uploads of movies: "I do not own this, no
copyright infringement intended!" The vast majority of young people
with internet access practice filesharing.

Now, you can take one point of view of that, which is: "How can so many
people be so ignorant of the law and what it says? They must be made to
understand!!"

On the other hand, an alternative point of view is: "How can the law in
a democratic society be so far divorced from what the vast majority of
people consider moral and reasonable?"

A point worth considering, perhaps.
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