[MD] Krimel's Manifesto - A first draft

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Krimel]
> Current copyright laws are obscene and should be repealed.

[Craig, previously]
>This is ignorance of the value of copyright laws; they do not 
> restrict freedom of ideas.  (When did you ever hear someone say:  "I 
> wish I knew what Pirsig says, but damn those copyright 
> laws.")  Copyright laws serve (1) the moral purpose of assuring an 
> author receives deserved payment for his work & (2) the practical 
> purpose of promoting the creation of ideas.

[Arlo]
> We, as a culture, accept this otherwise immoral usurption [by copyright
laws] of social level "property" over the free and unowned nature of ideas...

Again, ignorance of copyright laws.  Ideas are not copyrighted.
Craig