More on manuals plus rescue

Evan Koblentz evan at snarc.net
Fri Aug 21 13:09:19 CDT 2015


> That's why I speak out against attempts to paint copyright violation as other things, such as theft: it's an appeal to emotions, trying to equate "thing I want people to oppose" with "very different thing I expect people already consider bad".  It's a fundamentally dishonest bit of oratory.

I write for a (meager) living. If someone were to take my work and 
decide for themselves that it should be online for free, then they ARE 
stealing from me. That is reality, not the semantics of case law.


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