Posts by Howard Chu 4 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Aug 2007
Read ITS#5361 too: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=5361
Niko's rebuttal to my email http://nmav.gnutls.org/2011/05/is-really-gnutls-considered-harmful.html
My followup: https://plus.google.com/112912252727709520367/posts/RGBXrLTh7oG
None of this is a surprise.
Punishment makes sense when there's an actual *theft* - an act that deprives a property owner of the use of that property. Electronic copying never deprives anyone of anything. At worst, they should simply be collecting the same fee they would have collected through an ordinary retail purchase, because that is the total extent of damage they could possibly have experienced.
Anything beyond that is Piracy, yes, but it's piracy committed by the RIAA and MPAA against ordinary citizens.
re: Henry Wertz, TimePilot84 - same thing happened to me when I was 17. Drove through a yellow light, got pulled over for running a red. I knew that intersection, and looked up the state laws. (In Michigan, a traffic light is yellow for 1 second per 10mph speed limit.) Had the officer's testimony of his estimate of my car's distance from the intersection when the light turned yellow, had his estimate of my car's speed. (He did not ever imply I was driving an unsafe speed or anywhere over the limit.) I had photos of the intersection. I used a whiteboard in the courtroom and ran the numbers to show that by the time the light had changed from yellow to red, my car was at least 100 feet beyond the intersection. The judge said "I don't doubt your math young man, but the officer said you ran a red." Case closed, I lost, had to pay additional court fees.
In US courts facts don't mean shit, The Law is not the same as Justice.
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