<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 7, 2009, at 12:39 PM, chovynz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:14 AM, John Olsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnny_automatic@mac.com">johnny_automatic@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"><br> On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:01 PM, <a href="mailto:clipart-request@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart-request@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> wrote:<br> <br> </div> I really doubt that FORCE is involved in your decision to download<br> pirated copies of music. The choice is yours. Piracy of things<br> people chose to retain copyright on is a avery different concept then<br> a community of people who are by choice giving up copyright freely.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> </font></blockquote></div><br>For me, seeing the effects of "people chose to retain copyright" is why I am now joining a"community of people who are by choice giving up copyright freely". <br><br>....</blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Cheers<br>Chovynz<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">And that is your choice and the choice of all of us who contribute here. But the key is choice. No one forces anyone to sell anything; no forces anyone to give it away freely. Sometimes the cheapest way for me to get something is to buy it given that most important and scarce thing in my life - sometimes it's time, sometimes it is skill. But there is still a huge difference between giving and taking. Taking things that others are not offering freely is stealing, no matter how you justify it. If you can't find what you want for free that does not entitle you to take it. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">John Olsen</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></p></div></div></body></html>