Comments on: Nine Things the RIAA, MPAA, Apple, Walmart.com, et. al. Do Not Want You to Know… or How to Build a Large Digital Media Library on the Cheap http://thomashawk.com/2004/08/nine-things-riaa-mpaa-apple-walmartcom_12.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2004/08/nine-things-riaa-mpaa-apple-walmartcom_12.html/comment-page-1#comment-21100 Anonymous Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:38:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4631#comment-21100 The point being that what's illegal has little or nothing to do with what's ethical. It was illegal for blacks to flee their "masters". We now know that law was evil. It was illegal for women to vote. We now know that law was evil. The law is an instrument of power, not of justice. DMCA, for example, is evil. Perhaps some day it will be as soundly and as justifiably reviled as Jim Crow laws.<br /><br />-- <br />http://www.blackgate.net/blog/ The point being that what’s illegal has little or nothing to do with what’s ethical. It was illegal for blacks to flee their “masters”. We now know that law was evil. It was illegal for women to vote. We now know that law was evil. The law is an instrument of power, not of justice. DMCA, for example, is evil. Perhaps some day it will be as soundly and as justifiably reviled as Jim Crow laws.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2004/08/nine-things-riaa-mpaa-apple-walmartcom_12.html/comment-page-1#comment-21101 Anonymous Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4631#comment-21101 Hey there, Thomas... I've got a constitutional amendment for you right here that says it's 100% legal for women to vote. There's nothing illegal at all about it, technical or otherwise.<br /><br />Google the 19th Amendment. First proposed in 1878 and finally ratified in 1920, the 19th amendment to the constitution once and for all granted to women the right to vote. One could argue there was indeed never any prohibition save an artificial cultural one. (though it may have spurred local laws-all of which were overridden by the amendment)<br /><br />Here's the text of the amendment, in case you're curious:<br /><br />The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.<br /><br />Cheers! Hey there, Thomas… I’ve got a constitutional amendment for you right here that says it’s 100% legal for women to vote. There’s nothing illegal at all about it, technical or otherwise.

Google the 19th Amendment. First proposed in 1878 and finally ratified in 1920, the 19th amendment to the constitution once and for all granted to women the right to vote. One could argue there was indeed never any prohibition save an artificial cultural one. (though it may have spurred local laws-all of which were overridden by the amendment)

Here’s the text of the amendment, in case you’re curious:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Cheers!

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