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Jan 19 2008

Breaching a government-mandated monopoly

Posted by: roscivs, in politics
Copyright violation is not “theft”, it is breaching a government mandated monopoly. It is morally equivalent to using Skype in a country where the government has granted one operator a monopoly on telecommunications.

Discuss.

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One Response to “Breaching a government-mandated monopoly”

  1. srilyk says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    I suppose that’s true. But much the same as Martin Luther King writes in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, if you /are/ going to “[breach the] government mandated monopoly”, you have to be willing to pay the penalties for your actions…

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