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Re: Read only if you love TREK
Peter Suciu (peter@connors.com) wrote:
: And if you take images, use the name or characters from Star Trek on a Web site then you are doing something worse than
: taking ONE cent from their pockets, you are stealing their trademarks, violating their copyrights and lessening the
: impact of their creations. To quote Barry White (on the issue of
: sampling, bootlegs and pirating) "stealing is : stealing."
Wasn't he the mayor of Washington, D.C. that got busted for crack
cocaine possession? Oh wait.. that was Marion Barry..
You guys are never going to settle this issue. There just seems to
be a natural division of people: on one side you have filthy rich corporate
executives looking to pad their pockets as much as they can and on the
other you have people who wonder why *copying* something equates to
stealing when in fact the original is left untouched. I never could
quite grasp that concept. Stealing cars is one thing, but "stealing"
someone's photo by making a copy of it seems like a ridiculous crime.
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