11-29-2009, 06:50 PM
I want to revive this topic, because it touches on some larger issues.
It's very clear that in the U.S. and many other nations, copyright law makes file sharing illegal. Now to consider activity that is known to be clearly illegal, there has to be some kind of premise or rule that one uses to make that decision.
An anarchist point of view is that laws, governments, courts are all manipulations that corrupt, evil people use to justify enslaving the gullible. Whether or not there is a law about something means nothing, except to calculate the odds of getting caught and punished by those who believe in the fictions. Copyright law would be something for an anarchist to ignore, just as any other law, unless the risk of getting caught and punished is too inconvenient.
A libertarian or Objectivist point of view is that laws, governments, courts are necessary institutions for society, and moral as far as they protect individual property rights and safety, but immoral if they go beyond the shared use of force in self-defense. The abstraction of intellectual property rights may or may not be seen as something that is morally valid.
Perhaps the mainstream point of view professed in society is that government is there to help us and to do good, and we should comply with the current law and work within the system to change it.
A more authoritarian point of view would agree with the Apostle Paul that all government is instituted by God and should be respected. Copyright law would be part of what Jesus referred to as "rendering to Caesar what belongs to Caesar."
From the perspective of the Law of One, which attitude towards copyright law best helps you polarize and grow in the spiritual direction you choose?
In this post I'm only discussing the legal aspects. Practical matters of whether or not the money helps the artist is something for another post.
It's very clear that in the U.S. and many other nations, copyright law makes file sharing illegal. Now to consider activity that is known to be clearly illegal, there has to be some kind of premise or rule that one uses to make that decision.
An anarchist point of view is that laws, governments, courts are all manipulations that corrupt, evil people use to justify enslaving the gullible. Whether or not there is a law about something means nothing, except to calculate the odds of getting caught and punished by those who believe in the fictions. Copyright law would be something for an anarchist to ignore, just as any other law, unless the risk of getting caught and punished is too inconvenient.
A libertarian or Objectivist point of view is that laws, governments, courts are necessary institutions for society, and moral as far as they protect individual property rights and safety, but immoral if they go beyond the shared use of force in self-defense. The abstraction of intellectual property rights may or may not be seen as something that is morally valid.
Perhaps the mainstream point of view professed in society is that government is there to help us and to do good, and we should comply with the current law and work within the system to change it.
A more authoritarian point of view would agree with the Apostle Paul that all government is instituted by God and should be respected. Copyright law would be part of what Jesus referred to as "rendering to Caesar what belongs to Caesar."
From the perspective of the Law of One, which attitude towards copyright law best helps you polarize and grow in the spiritual direction you choose?
In this post I'm only discussing the legal aspects. Practical matters of whether or not the money helps the artist is something for another post.