[free-sklyarov] 'COMMENTARY: STEALING IS STEALING'

[Tom]

> > COMMENTARY: STEALING IS STEALING,
> > NO MATTER HOW NOBLE THE CAUSE
> >
> http://www.seyboldreports.com/ebooks/010816-gene.html

the article does exactly what it accuses others of: missing the point.

specifically, Dmitri Sklyarov hasn't stolen anything.
period. no discussion on that. he is NOT being hunted for stealing. not
even for unauthorized copying. he's being prosecuted for doing
something that potentially enables others to commit a crime. as in:
Ford makes a car, Smith uses it in a bank robbery. who's the criminal,
Ford or Smith?

now you can go all sophistry and get the smoke machine fired up, but
the simple core issue is that the guy did not steal, and therefore the
whole article falls right on its face. Dmitri doesn't have to excuse a
theft with noble causes because there was no theft. no matter how you
spin it, the article focusses on something that didn't occur and that
nobody is even claiming to have occured.


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