From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 15:03:40 MDT
>From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu>
> Sorry if the objections I have to your position might sound a bit
>like an ad hominem but I don't know how to express it differently:
>Your defense of the mega corporations involved in controlling IP
>seems to the expression of a Kohlberg stage five reasoning. Anders
>and Lee are using arguments more typical of stage six. I will be
>difficult to reconcile your positions because of the different
>bases for inference, especially since the transitions between
>Kohlberg stages rarely if ever are the result of single
>threads of logical reasoning - instead they seem to occur by the
>accumulation of small, subconscious changes in attitude. Maybe
>with time this will happen with one of the sides involved here (I
>am strongly siding with Anders and Lee).
I see no ad hominem.
I have no knowledge of Kohlberg reasoning so I will have to look it
up.
But it seems what your talking about is akin to what Gregory
Bateson called errors of logical typeing.
Lee seems to be arguing that musicians would be better off without
the record companies, which I think is possible, but I was arguing
quite simply that people illegally copying copyrighted material
were infringing on the copyright (remember we went over this last
time, infringement is not technically theft). This infringement is
costing the copyright holders money.
I am arguing that his infringement is morally wrong, and the moral
equivalent of theft.
Brian
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