Blu-Ray and Linux

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/7/3 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:06:40PM +0300, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>
>> I *don't* know if this is the case in Israel, I do know that jewish
>> law does *not* recognize copyright and downloading is *not* considered
>> theft, it is however definitely a moral question, which has lots of
>> factors that go into it.
>> Jewish law does frown strongly on plagiarism (statements like "he who
>> doesn't attribute destroys the world", iirc avot but I may be off by a
>> lot)
>
> I don't buy this specific argument: the Jewish law does not allow
> reading other people's letters and such without their permission. Do you
> really think this has ever stopped any wiretapping?
That's kind of a moot argument, jewish law doesn't allow various other
things about which there is known responsa where it was allowed for
mossad/isa agents on assignments (the one that springs to mind is
intercourse, I don't remember the particulars though, if the agent was
male, female and married or single).
>
> Also note that this is not plagiarism: Nadav did not attempt to strip
> any credit titles from the programs. Nadav's actions would enhance the
> reputation of those prgrams by making them more accessible.
I agree, plagerism kind of comes up in the debate about copying
software more then it comes up in the one about music/movies, it was
part of a shiur I once heard on the subject so it kind of bubbled back
up here.

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
>
> (Regardless of any other considerations)
>
> More on attribution:
> http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/06/27/credit-is-due/
>
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