Re: In a quandry

[Wes Morgan <wesm at libretech_org>]

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On Monday 21 July 2003 11:04 am, John Davis wrote:

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> As far as the natural law and all that goes:
>
> I don't think there's such a thing as "natural law", and if you think a
> law is bad, by all means disobey it, but as Thoreau or MLK would say,
> accept the legal consequences of your civil disobedienace.

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I sort of take the stance that when I think a law is bad, but there is still a 
chance that it could be changed through legal means, I obey the law, but work 
to bring it down (legally). Of course, there could be laws that are bad 
enough to simply outright disobey, but I don't think this is one of them. 
(Not that I thought you were implying that, I'm just thinking out loud). The 
only thing I meant by "natural law" was that digitized music is *inherently* 
copyable, unlike, say, apples. You have to grow more apples to multiply them, 
so putting a law in place that says it's illegal to steal apples from the 
growers is not in conflict with natural law. However, putting a law like that 
in place for digitized music, is.

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> And: artists gotta eat. Linford and Karin may only get a pittance of what
> they deserve, but the recrod label's exploitation if artist doesn't give
> me the right to further the exploitation by not ensuring they don't even
> get the pittance. Two wrongs, blah blah blah.

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Agreed. That's why I said I think we need a system that compensates the 
artist. I wasn't arguing for further exploitation of artists because we can't 
stop people from copying (nor should we; sharing art is a good thing blah 
blah blah), rather less by cutting out the exploitative middle man while at 
the same time allowing copying and ensuring compensation of the artist. Two 
rights. :)

Wes Morgan

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