Comments on: ‘We’re all pirates’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3756 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:36:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3756/comment-page-1#comment-9335 Reader's Write Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:04:17 +0000 #comment-9335 Copying copyrighted material is the most victimless crime of all, when done privately and not for profit. Now society. or at least those that control the legal system, is making all sorts of victimless "crimes" very costly and wants to send the "criminals" to jail. The inconceivable part of this sad story is that when the victims of piracy and trade were humans, the slaves, much of the "civilized" world did not make the trade (of humans) a crime or even shameful. Why, Washington himself was a slave trader. Some progress! Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com Copying copyrighted material is the most victimless crime of all, when done privately and not for profit.

Now society. or at least those that control the legal system, is making all sorts of victimless “crimes” very costly and wants to send the “criminals” to jail.

The inconceivable part of this sad story is that when the victims of piracy and trade were humans, the slaves, much of the “civilized” world did not make the trade (of humans) a crime or even shameful. Why, Washington himself was a slave trader.

Some progress!

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

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