[free-sklyarov] Sklyarov=Napster according to Senator Boxer

[alfee cube]

lol - makes you feel represented huh:)

Barbara Boxer uses one of those cute, trite and quite
untrue platitudes that are uttered without thought:

"... Neither can legally be taken from you without
compensation..."

in america we are granted property rights in exchange
for granting property rights. there is nothing
immutable about those rights - they are BALANCED
exchanges. when they become imbalanced (as in the case
of the DMCA and Dmitry's prosecution) we have a duty
to immediately move by all lawful means to re-balance
them.

im sure barbara meant to say the government does not
take property without compensation, but even this is
balanced say in the case of zoning where the
government is continually taking property rights
without compensation.




--- Paul Callahan <callahanpb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gotta wonder what kind of bot they have responding
> to
> Senator Boxer's email.  Here's the response to a
> letter
> I sent "regrading" Sklyarov and DMCA:
> 
> Dear Mr. Callahan:
> 
>  Thank you for your recent communication
> regrading Napster.  As you may already know, both
> the United States District Court and a United
> States Court of Appeals have ruled that Napster
> encourages and assists copyright infringement of
> copyrighted music.   This decision restates the
> important fact that in our country we value
> property rights, whether its music that a writer
> has created or the car that you drive.  Neither
> can legally be taken from you without
> compensation.
> 
>      I strongly support the advancement of
> technology and innovation on the Internet and
> desire that all consumers be able to get music in
> the electronic marketplace.  But such advances must
> also accompany respect for others' creations.
> Those who invest in the creation of music, whether
> it be an artist or record label, deserve to be paid
> for the use of their music.
> 
>      The technology Napster employs holds great
> promise.  It is my hope that such peer to peer
> technology will be available legitimately and that
> the idea that Napster has invented will become
> available to consumers in a legal manner very soon.
> 
>      Thank you for contacting me on this important
> issue.
> 
> --Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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