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The "content" the trade orgs are so worried about is illegal only because they got laws passed saying it was illegal. By no stretch of the imagination is this stuff illegal, immoral or unethical. Nobody is selling anything. Nobody is claiming they wrote somebodys song. But what the hell......as long as this stuff can be stopped, why stop there? Everybody "knows" porn is bad. So once the college has scared kids outa listening to music and watching movies, why not threaten their financing by forbidding porn. And pre-maritial sex. Once that problem is solved move on to dissent or insulting political figures. Sure you can do it... you just lose your college money. Use drugs? Drink beer? Use bad language? Well those are all bad things. If we can stop ya downloading music by zipping up the purse, lets do likewise for all inappropriate acts, thoughts and tendencies. Queer students? Smokers? Excess gasoline consumers? Follow the lead of the MPAA. Sure, you are free to do as you wish. But the govt. won't subsidise you.
And when the colleges feel the pinch because they have no students? What then? Who will the CIA and the FBI recruit? The hundred or so grads will all be clean white-shirted, short haired pure virgins who have never heard a metal lyric, seen a tit, drunk a beer or watched a movie. Should be a great ruling class eh? | |
yazdzik
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| opungvp is correct on many fronts - constitutional law must always take precedence over property - this has been so since the taney court -
that notwithsatanding, the ability to build a live debian cd, send it out, get it back, make corrections to content, &c, is dependent upon servers being donated, and, to be honest, many colleges do this, or all of us leaving our torrents up to seed.
this argument taking place is the same argument, with different particulars, as Charles River Bridge.
the eternal quandry here is property versus liberty - every generation reared in properity argues for property rights superceding law.
all good wishes,
yazdzik | |
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