Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] We've gone astray
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:37:09 -0400

At 11:47 AM 7/7/2010, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>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.

I believe the exact legal phrase is, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse."

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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