tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post436254817087337261..comments2024-03-23T13:09:54.464-04:00Comments on EXCESS COPYRIGHT: If the answer is yes, then you gotta confess!Howard Knopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18321190334597129416noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-53722868533233778262009-07-14T14:55:42.850-04:002009-07-14T14:55:42.850-04:00@Mike Arthur: there are so many problems with that...@Mike Arthur: there are so many problems with that comment and the Knight's material.<br /><br />1. It's not illegal to "download something you haven't paid for" -- there are *lots* of cases where that's legal. <i>Unauthorized</i> downloading is illegal, not <i>unpaid</i> downloading (that is, downloading which is not authorized by the law, or by the copyright holder where they have the ability to control who downloads something).<br /><br />2. Unauthorized downloading may be a sin insofar as it's illegal, but it's <i>not</i> a violation of the seventh commandment. It's <i>not</i> stealing. It's copyright infringement. Those are two very different things, and the Knights of Columbus are wrong to muddle them.<br /><br />I asked the Archbishop of Toronto, a few months back, if he had any suggestions about where to find out more on the Church's position on "intellectual property." He said he wasn't terribly familiar himself, but recommended that I look in the Catechism of the Catholic Church under the seventh commandment.<br /><br />There was <i>nothing</i> there about copyright or patents. It was about stealing physical things.<br /><br />Yet, I found lots of comments in related areas that were much more like the Pope's comment in his latest encyclical.<br /><br />The Knights of Columbus are wrong to muddle this issue with the seventh commandment, and it's a misrepresentation of broader Church teaching and thinking on the subject.Blaise Alleynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14842080353477309098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-67316681587607453012009-07-08T21:23:39.944-04:002009-07-08T21:23:39.944-04:00@Crosbie Fitch: God, the original open source auth...@Crosbie Fitch: God, the original open source author?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-47974445230119846482009-07-08T09:39:38.127-04:002009-07-08T09:39:38.127-04:00Two missing commandments found!
XI. THOU SHALT MA...Two missing commandments found!<br /><br />XI. THOU SHALT MARVEL AT ALL MY CREATION AND IN MY LIKENESS THOU TOO SHALT CREATE – THY DESIGN SHALL BE JOINED TO MINE AND ALL UPON EARTH THAT IS MADE IN ITS FORM SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THY WILL, FOR AS LONG AS THEE SHALL LIVE.<br /><br />XII. THOU SHALT SCRIBE AND SHARE MY WORD, YET THOU MUST NOT SCRIBE, NOR SHARE AMONG A GATHERING, THE WORD OR GRAVING OF THY NEIGHBOUR WITHOUT HIS LEAVE, WHILST HIS BLOOD LAST.<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=153" rel="nofollow">Commandments on Creation and Copying</a>.Crosbie Fitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554471152790988479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-51187411198487064662009-07-08T09:25:50.596-04:002009-07-08T09:25:50.596-04:00It's concerned with privacy because so many Ch...It's concerned with privacy because so many Christians are flagrantly disregarding the law. It may not be stealing but it's still against the law and it's still taking something for free you haven't paid for.<br /><br />They didn't say ripping a DVD, they explicitly said piracy, i.e. downloading something you haven't paid for.<br /><br />I think copyright laws and copyright fines are excessive but I also think the way to fight it isn't just ignoring the law.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com