[committee] Downloading of copyrighted stuff

[Davyd Madeley]

Quoting David Basden <davidb-0624 at rcpt.to>:

> This is just blatant.

Locking accounts may not be good enough, we should resort to a more traditional
form of punishment, like cutting off their right hand.

Copyright violation is a really crap thing to do, no matter what you may think
of copyright law, without it we would be truly screwed. After all without
copyright law, there would be no GPL (or too many other open source licenses),
and while that would mean no Emacs (woo!) it would also mean that many other
things wouldn't exist.

Yes, the media you wish to view is overpriced, however stealing it will only
serve to push the price higher as the Middlemen decide they have to "recoup
losses due to piracy".

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