>From: "Jason Joel Thompson" <jasonjthompson@home.com>
>Ah yes, "get used to it and get over it," the rallying cry of the
>pessimistic inevitablist.
>
>Good thing that a bunch of smart people on this planet decided to try to
>exert some influence over our reality despite its apparent inevitability.
>Instead of shrugging and saying: "Hey, we can't stop Frank from chopping
>down Roger's plum tree and setting his barn on fire, so let's not bother,"
>they figured they'd whip up some aribitrary social contracts to control
>undesirable individual behavior.
OK, you�re obviously a smart guy. Let�s hear *your* idea for a workable
�social contract� that�s going to keep people from pirating music and
software. Sure you can shut down Napster. But can you shut down IRC? or
Gnutella? or Freenet? I�ll tell you what, in the unlikely event that you
*can* come up with a workable solution, I know some folks over at the RIAA
who would be happy to make you very rich in exchange for your bright ideas.
-Zero
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