[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

Richard Stallman rms at gnu.org
Tue Nov 3 02:59:57 CET 2009


    Yes, but buying something, he accepts the laws that are bound to the
    product.

That is not so.  There you are mistaken.  There are laws about all
sorts of daily actions, and we are never given the choice to accept
them or not; so we never accepted them.

We can hope that laws reflect and support what is right, but sometimes
they don't.  Sometimes they support what is wrong, especially nowadays
when business buy the laws.  Unjust laws do not alter good into bad or
bad into good; they have no moral authority.  They simply represent
the commands of the evil empire of business.

    Yeah. But nodoby is forced to download Brittney Spears latest song or
    Windows 7.

There is nothing wrong with downloading a Brittney Spears song
as long as you don't let that stop you from sharing it.  Only when
you refuse to share, or allow yourself to be stopped from sharing,
does downloading it become wrong.


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