-> Let me ask you this.  If you had the power, would you *rescind* a
-> person's
-> right - any person - to buy Disney titles in quantity from a Wal-Mart
-> you feel there should be a law that says a person legally can only ow
-> COPY of any given Disney release at one time?  If you do feel that wa
-> imagine the impact at the grocery store!  What if a person could
-> only have, in their possession, *one* candy bar at one time?  Or
-> only *one* quart of milk? What if a farmer could have only *one*
-> bail of hay?  What if Chrysler said "you can own only *one* of our
-> company's cars at any given time"?  What would happen to our
-> capitalist society????
No, people can buy as many copies of video tapes as they want for
in-home personal exhibition ONLY. Just like the label and the copyright
law says. You are now equating it to other, non copyrighted things even
'though I never said people should be restricted to just one. You sound
very angry that I have pointed out that what you claim to do is illegal
and immoral.
-> I maintain I have a right to own 10 copies of a Disney movie if I
-> want - just like I can go out and buy anything else I want to in
-> quantities of 10 if I like.  Or in quantities of 100 or 1000 if I
-> like!  I further maintain that what I do with those copies once they
-> are privately owned by me, is entirely
-> up to me.  I am violating no legal or moral law by holding onto them
-> years then selling them off.
->
That's according to your own situational ethics - NOT according to
copyright law. The Internation Copyright Laws says you only have a right
to show Disney movies from video tapes you own and only in your own
home. Nothing else. It expressly forbids you to sell them. You say you
are not violating the law - I say you are. This is important because
when you offer your video tapes for sale on FidoNet you are using every
SysOps computer on down the line to break the law. As SysOps we are
responsible to keep people from breaking the law on our systems. It is
our legal and moral duty.
-> Are you not a capitalist Kit?  Perhaps the notion of investment -
as a concept - is morally offensive to you.  If so, you shouldn't be
in this country, because that's what people DO here.
Now you state that I shouldn't live in the country because I don't want
to invest my money in illegal schemes. I was born and raised in this
country and I do my best to keep it's laws. Who put YOU in charge of
where I can live? GOODNESS!!!! I thought this was America!
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