[free-sklyarov] Parallels?

[Christopher R. Maden]

I'm going to take a wild guess that Photoshop has been used at least once 
to modify or copy a work of child pornography.

If Dmitry is morally guilty of software piracy,[*] then doesn't it follow 
that the individual Photoshop programmers are morally guilty of child 
pornography?

Is there a succinct way to work that into a protest sign?

-crism

[*] I understand that he's not charged with software piracy.  He's charged 
with trafficking in forbidden technology,[**] but the reason that that's 
illegal is because it will obviously give rise to rampant software piracy.

[**] I like "forbidden technology" better than copyright technology 
circumvention tools; it conveys, I think, the accurate feeling of 
totalitarianism and dystopian fearmongering.
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"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though
it does big things badly, does small things badly too." - J.K. Galbraith
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