[NTLUG:Discuss] MI2 boycott

[Jeremy Blosser]

Brian Koontz [pongo at cinnabar.valtech.com] wrote:
> Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > Just look into the details of the issue, not the MPAAs "rhetoric", and
> > you'll hopefully see that they're not calling a spade a spade.
> 
> When did I ever say I supported MPAA's position?

It's what you've been quoting this whole time... by "MPAA's position" I was
referring to the concept that DeCSS is a tool for copying/pirating DVDs.

I will note that you're qualifying your position quite a bit as you go, as
you were apparently originally trying to make a big statement about
"rhetoric" in general and are now being more explicit about what you really
think about the details of this case.  And our mails are crossing.   I
wouldn't necessarily have said what I said with what you've said since, but
that's the nature of this medium.

> This is typical of one who is so blinded by their own convictions they
> just assume everyone else must be "wrong."

More typical of such a person is the kind of ad hominem attack you keep
resorting to.  I'm not assuming anything.  I'm responding to what you said
you think and stated as facts based on what I think and know to be the
facts of this issue.

It's starting to look like you're more interested in making a point about
the way people communicate their ideas than the real facts of this debate.
Which is your choice -- but realize that in doing so, you're becoming your
own poster child.

> For the record, I think the MPAA's position is wrong.  But that wouldn't
> matter to you, since I don't agree with you in the first place.

If you want to keep this discussion going, please let me know which part of
the MPAA's position is "wrong", since you have said previously that you
think that a) DeCSS is a tool for copying and b) such a tool is illegal, or
at least dubious.  If I got either of those wrong, please correct me, as
I'm interested in dialogue, not pigeonholing you.

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Jeremy Blosser   |   jblosser at firinn.org   |   http://jblosser.firinn.org/
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