[Novalug] Over the Top
Tux subscriber Dave Aronson
tux2dave@davearonson.com
Thu Aug 2 13:31:54 EDT 2007
Jason [mailto:novalug@jasons.us] writes:
> the girl had to know that recording any part of a movie is wrong.
No. She might reasonably be expected to know that recording any part of a movie is *illegal*. Whether it is "wrong" is very much disputed.
Do not conflate what is right/wrong, honest/dishonest, moral/immoral, legal/illegal, or ethical/unethical. (I've probably left out a few other applicable terms too.) These are all very different things, especially in a free country.
> What ever happened to personal responsibility?
One of the very reasons for its decline is the attempt to legislate what is right/wrong, honest/dishonest, moral/immoral, and/or ethical/unethical!
IMHO a much better way to handle this would have been:
- Girl gets caught by theater
- Theater ejects girl and reports incident up chain to movie company,
presumably in accord with their contract
- Movie company decides whether or not to sue over copyright infringement
- Movie company gives girl a lecture... and, at a press conference, two tix
(one for her bro, one for her so she can see the rest of the movie) to
prove they're not such a bunch of evil hard-asses, BUT warning that this
will NOT be the result for ALL other people caught (so as to prevent
copycats just trying to get free tix)
- Note that CRIMINAL court NEVER enters into it, nor any other public
institution definitely, only the POSSIBILITY of CIVIL court!
-Dave
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