More on the thief (I thought we were past that)

[Angelo Toti]

>(By the way, is his name spelled with two T's, or
three? I've seen him spell 
>it both ways.) 

My name is Totti.

>the Yahoo/Geocities Terms of Service, which bind Mr.
Totti as long
>as he is using their resources to display "his"
pages. 

Just call me Angelo, I don't like this "Mr." thingie.

>Not being Uncle Scrooge, I CAN NOT AFFORD to spend
that much time and 
>creative energy on work with no prospect of paying.
If anyone can simply 
>come along and take it, without permission and
without paying me, then the 
>work has no value to me and therefore will not be
done. 

Anyone can simply come along and take it, that's
right. If nobody did, that's not because of copyright
laws, but because your site is not interesting enough
to steal. I have lots of doubts BTW that you can feed
your children with advertissments placed on your site.

>When Mr. Totti steals a person's work, he steals that
person's livelihood. 

No. The sites I used don't make the living of anyone.

>When he wonders why anyone would make a fuss over
Internet thievery, he is 
>saying that person's work has no value. And when YOU
say it's okay to steal 
>as long as the victim is "credited", you are
promoting a brave new world in 
>which work that is attractive to thieves will of
necessity be relegated to 
>the creator's spare time -- and therefore, will tend
not to be done. 

But they still will be done, even if anyone can use
the work. Because lots of people just have nothing
else to do.

The #%$£~@!§ people are not those who use the works of
others but the ones who harass others because they
steal their texts or images.

Just because you wrote one line of text one day you
want everyone to keep asking you forever for
permission of using that line of text. You make
something publicly available and then pretend to keep
an absolute full control on it. I say that is stupid
on the Internet.

I reserve me the right of using any information I can
find on the Internet anywhere, without mentioning my
sources. Who cares about the name of the person who
originally scanned an image?

>But we have not yet done so -- and I very strongly
suspect that like the 
>vast majority of extravagant predictions for new
technology, the one about 
>the end of copyright will turn out to be more than a
little on the, shall we 
>say, "enthusiastic" side. 

The internet will always be a big mess where you can
find 
pirated softwares, copyrighted music, games (to name
the three most populars)
etc. for free. That is not extravagant, that is the
truth. 



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