All this copy stuff..

[klycea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Adam-HALPID Klyce)]

     Folks,
     
     Could we please stop arguing about this, it is boring, 
     repetitive and it hasn't helped me make better IR or UV 
     photos yet....
     
     The simple fact of the matter is, that in this particular
     case this is a victimless crime, if it is a crime at all.
     
     If this copyright belongs to Kodak, fuck'em! They had over
     $14 billion is sales last year and I seriously doubt they
     care about this book that hasn't been pulished in almost
     50 years. If they do happen to care about it  -oh well, you
     snooze/you lose (Rip Van Winkle didn't even sleep that long.)
     
     Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Copyright protection 
     may, or may not, be a necessary law but in this case it is
     useless, it has been broken, nobody cares and nobody can do
     anything about it.
     
     Can I look myself in the mirror and say I am proud of what
     I have done, thought about doing or was going to do? Yes. Just
     as much as if I were going to smoke pot tonight (illegal in
     my country) have anal sex tonight (illegal in many states in
     my country) hire a prostitute tonight (illegal in almost all
     states in my country), marry a member of the same sex 
     (illegal in my country) or hand out clean needles to drug
     addicts (illegal in most states in my country.)
     
     None of these things are hurting anyone  [except maybe the anal
     sex part, but I guess some people like it so who am I to say
     anything :-)  ]  and so I will not honor the laws that forbid
     them. Furthermore, just because something is legal doesn't 
     make it right anymore than something that being illegal is
     necessarily wrong (after all, wasn't slavery once legal?)
     
     
     And no, I am not in a bad mood - this is how I was born.
     
     Adam.
     
     

------------------------------

Topic No. 23