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Re:Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic by citricsquid on Sunday May 13, 2012 @11:25AM (#3967218)
Fair is when the people that own content control that content. It's not a difficult concept.
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Re:Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic by slowpoke on Sunday May 13, 2012 @02:05PM (#3967714)
How so? I would see it as a lot fairer if we'd all follow a liberal approach:

    I can't force you to give me things.
    But neither can you stop me from sharing them.
I completely reject the illogical, nonsensical crazy idea that you can own virtual, abstract things. It's impossible by their very definition.

Die Gedanken sind frei.

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Re:Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic by vibrunazo on Sunday May 13, 2012 @02:46PM (#3967857)
"Your right ends where another's right begins."

It's 'fair' for you to have control over your content, as much as it's 'fair' for me to have control over how I can share, remix and improve and the content I bought.

When your right conflicts with my right, then I don't it's fair for you to make it illegal for me to improve and share the content created by your grandparent 90 years ago.

Short version, the world is not as simply black or white as you'd like to believe.

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