[Gllug] OT, but funny

[Paul Brazier]

> "Only those involved in the distribution of pirated software would be
> charged, not the end users."
> So it is okay to use the stolen goods?
> So if someone anonymously sends me a windows OS I can use it ?
> Apart from being morally wrong on two counts (1)Stolen & (2)MS is just
> WRONG. 

You could argue that it's non-free software that is morally wrong.
Criminalising someone just for copying bits of data from one place to
another.

Maybe society has decided to enforce intellectual property rights with
violence (imprisonment) but I think that morality is more fundamental
than this, which is in effect a practical decision.

Or are you saying not that pirating is fundamentally immoral, but that
it's the breaking of society's rules that is immoral?


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