[Ti] [OT} All this 'anti-piracy' stuff

[b]

Steve Wozniak paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>
>At 5:09 PM -0400 2003.05.03, b wrote:
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>>I cannot speak for those outside America, but here, in that part of 
>>the US where we take the Constitution seriously, it is our duty to 
>>disobey the 'convention' of the latest law, when it is morally 
>>wrong to obey blindly. Not a 'right', a duty. ... [snipped].... 
>>But where collusion exists between the 9th circuit, the Supreme 
>>Court, regulators in the bureaucratic Gov't, the 
>>bought-and-paid-for-Congress, and Industry, well, the table is set 
>>for civil disobedience.
>
>People who practice civil disobedience do so openly and expect to 
>pay fines as the price charged by society for those infractions. In 
>other words, it's a contractual trade. Parking overtime falls into 
>this category. You can say "I'll pay the $25 this time." The 
>equivalent would be to openly call to the attention of the record 
>companies that you steal their product, and tell them why they 
>should be paying you for it, and take the consequences.
>--

I was arrested numerous times as a result of sit-ins, occupations, 
school strikes in high school [in Mountain view], up at foothill 
College [in Los Altos Hills], over at Stanford and Lytton Plaza [Palo 
Alto], over at SRI in Menlo Park,  and up at San Francisco 
State...I'll be drafting letters to the Big Six as soon as I'm 
relocated to Syracuse. [Within 2 weeks, if I get financing together 
quickly enough] Thanks for the idea Steve, I appreciate it.

~flipper