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Thanks for the clarification, so I'll restate it that it is not unreasonable to attempt to protect copyrights. If DRM brings more publishers into the pdf market, that's a good thing. If I can't actually use a DRMed pdf because I'm not able to read the thing, that's unfortunate. If I can...

I did mean my comment to be negative with regards to the use I objected to. There does seem to be "the guy who pushes back draws the foul" thing going on, as well as (among some) a mindset of "our poltics are *facts*, and your response is politics".

I pointed out specifically what was political. If I had given my reasoning, or reported it more than once, you might have a point. But, because I pointed out the comment, I'm the *&%&*^%. Sure. This does point out the major identifiers of partisan fighting: 1) People who agree with you...

Must you grotesquely caricaturize what I said to respond to it? I can make my arguements, you can make yours, but when something is not put forward with any reasoning, but simply an unsupported assertion, there is a problem. I feel it justified to comment on a claim based solely on a...

If you ignore precautions for the protection of your copyrights, that weakens prosecutions for copyright infringement. It might just be me, but I missed where you're the one who gets to make legally binding judgements about the value of DRM.

Sigh. Yes, you're being forced to steal it. It's always fun to see the rationalizations start.

Your first statement is not necessarily true. In copyright infringement cases, it is often important to show that the copyright owner has made an effort to protect the copyright. Charles Schultz once had to force a person to remove a large mural of Snoopy and Woodstock from an barn...

My "cheap shot political comment" was to point out that gratuitous political nature of the comment that *I* was responding to. Please react with reason, instead of just ideology.

For the purposes of maintaining focus and not burning width by copying everything, I'm not going to respond to some bits that I consider purely the province of individual opinion, non-interesting or, shall we say, non-flame retardant. (I had a response to the first paragraph of the original...

See? This is the reason why I like EnWorld. Because of the rules, cheap shots like this can be stopped without triggering more than a couple of reactive flames and not full troll attacks. If you want to defend your ideology to me, you can, be not here. I'm currently trying to keep this thread...

This is, apparently, how we learn best. While I'm away from my office (I went from Texas to Florida to watch Venus transit the Sun, er, visit some friends of ours) the amount of research that shows that peer learning is overwhelmingly the most effective ways to create lasting retention of...

Keep Yer Politics To Yerself Please keep your politics to yourself. This claim is weak, but to address would break the rules that you shouldn't have broken.

I would not say the "percetion" of equal protection, because while an individual or smaller corporation is less likely to have the resources to actively defend their copyright in the sense of instituting lawsuits, there is no legal difference between the two copyrights in theory or in court if...

At least we have both possibilities covered.

While I'm sure that Dannyalcatraz can/will answer this more completely and precisely than I can, Your post explicitely invoked the problems that I think that your poet and James Heard's both had. Equal protection is not equal opportunity. IP that you create has the same legal protections...

material that he built using the stolen plans. I consider it grossly simplistic to take the attitude that theft only occurs when a physical object is moved. The company is denied the profits that it is entitled to by law for selling the power source, if they choose to sell it. The fact that...

You're quite welcome. I just happen to notice it by luck, as I hadn't gone to that site in quite a while, so I'm happy to have done my good deed for the day. :D

While I will grant that different criminal acts have different consequences, and that the penalties for those crimes should, in themselves, differ, they are both still crimes and can both still be wrong. To shoplift a copy of a book is a crime with a given range of pentalties regardless of...

The means are important. If you make a legal copy of material that you have legal possesion of, that's one thing, but if you obtain a stolen copy of that material in another media, then you have utilized an illegal service. Zap. At this point it wouldn't matter if you did it to read it to...

The ones who download material illegally are the ones who are stealing sale by sale; the ones who make the material availible for download are the ones who are commiting the greater theft. If someone makes 20k worth of copies of your band's CD and gives them away free on the street, the market...