Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
by the8472 on Thursday December 11, 2014 @12:11PM
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I'm not sure if we're even talking about the same thing then.
In a previous post you said
>"As a content creator, shouldn't I have the opportunity to give away my products (or sell them) in a way that I see fit?"
Which seemed to me like an argument for an intrinsic, natural right that a content creator should have, irrespective of current law.
So either we are arguing over current law, in which case the questions you ask are already settled by courts and we should be discussing whether current law is acceptable.
Or you are arguing about rights that people ought to have, but then you cannot say
>"But that does not mean that these rights do not exist."
If we are arguing about rights that one ought to have then they do no exist a priori, they have to be constructed first.
In a previous post you said
>"As a content creator, shouldn't I have the opportunity to give away my products (or sell them) in a way that I see fit?"
Which seemed to me like an argument for an intrinsic, natural right that a content creator should have, irrespective of current law.
So either we are arguing over current law, in which case the questions you ask are already settled by courts and we should be discussing whether current law is acceptable.
Or you are arguing about rights that people ought to have, but then you cannot say
>"But that does not mean that these rights do not exist."
If we are arguing about rights that one ought to have then they do no exist a priori, they have to be constructed first.