US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by namdnay on Monday May 27, 2013 @11:14AM (#5774908)

Seriously? Theft, Assault, Civil Liability etc.. I think there's a significant overlap between Ethics and Law. Our systems of laws are based on the work of philosophers studying ethics, of course there's a huge overlap

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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by mrmekon on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:16PM (#5775153)

There's also offshore tax havens, political action committees, and patent trolls. Some unethical things are legal.

There's also underage sexting, media piracy, cryptocurrencies, and marijuana. Some things aren't globally agreed upon as ethical or unethical, but the law still attempts to address them.

Identifying the overlap is difficult.

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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by GhotiFish on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:17PM (#5775160)

people create laws to enforce ethics, but ethics and laws and law often don't overlap because law gets tinkered with less than ethical people and one man's justice is another man's horror.

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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by namdnay on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:53PM (#5775329)

I agree with you, they definitely don't match exactly. But I was arguing that they overlap: Some parts match, or at leats cover the same ground.

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