Comments on: An Ethical Question http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/an-ethical-question/ refusing to drink the kool-aid for anyone Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:59:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sherry http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/an-ethical-question/comment-page-1/#comment-3017 Sherry Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:42:44 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/13/an-ethical-question/#comment-3017 Whoops! Sorry there, I've gone from having to have my thoughts e-mailed to you to for post to posting willy-nilly! Whoops! Sorry there, I’ve gone from having to have my thoughts e-mailed to you to for post to posting willy-nilly!

]]> By: Sherry http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/an-ethical-question/comment-page-1/#comment-3016 Sherry Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:40:21 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/13/an-ethical-question/#comment-3016 Yeahyeahyeah....I like to change the subject too whenever I lose a debate.... yunzer jus' cranky cuz yunz can't use yer free WiFi anymores! bwa ha ha haaaaaaaaa! ;-) Yeahyeahyeah….I like to change the subject too whenever I lose a debate….

yunzer jus’ cranky cuz yunz can’t use yer free WiFi anymores! bwa ha ha haaaaaaaaa!

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]]> By: Sherry http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/an-ethical-question/comment-page-1/#comment-3015 Sherry Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:38:35 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/13/an-ethical-question/#comment-3015 Yeahyeahyeah....I like to change the subject too whenever I lose a debate.... ;-) Yeahyeahyeah….I like to change the subject too whenever I lose a debate….

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]]> By: Byron http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/an-ethical-question/comment-page-1/#comment-3014 Byron Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:24:01 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/13/an-ethical-question/#comment-3014 Sorry, Sherry, but <strong>your</strong> analogy breaks down entirely. I don't drink coffee! :) Sorry, Sherry, but your analogy breaks down entirely. I don’t drink coffee!

:)

]]> By: Sherry http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/an-ethical-question/comment-page-1/#comment-3013 Sherry Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:40:47 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/2005/09/13/an-ethical-question/#comment-3013 Let's say it's *my* Post-Gazette, and you pick it up off my doorstep w/o asking permission, read it, fold it up carefully and return it. Is that a good thing to do? Or what if, you are in the store, and you read the Post-Gazette in the checkout line, fold it up, and return it before you pay, is that alright? Perhaps you are thinking of a paper you find on the park bench, well, in that case, permission to read it has effectively been given by the person who left it behind on the park bench. So it is not stealing from the original owner or the newspaper. But this is not the scenario we're discussing, is it? I don't think, in the case of WiFi, you are stealing it from the company *as much as* you're stealing it from the person who is purchasing the service. As with cable, if you run a line from the pole to your house you're stealing from the company, but if you run a splitter from your neighbor, you're stealing it from them as well(thier signal is diminished, and as mentioned earlier you can create a problem with the quality of service from WiFi with multiple users also) I don't think you're analogy is quite clear enough. I had a discussion with a woman about napster...she claimed it was no different from reading a book borrowed from someone else....the differene there is when you borrow a book you don't COPY it, and with napster you have COPIED it. There's a big difference. Well there's a difference between reading a paper I bought with my permission and daily sneaking it off my doorstep. Especially if it takes me longer to get my paper while you're busy reading it over your morning cofee..... :-) Let’s say it’s *my* Post-Gazette, and you pick it up off my doorstep w/o asking permission, read it, fold it up carefully and return it. Is that a good thing to do? Or what if, you are in the store, and you read the Post-Gazette in the checkout line, fold it up, and return it before you pay, is that alright?

Perhaps you are thinking of a paper you find on the park bench, well, in that case, permission to read it has effectively been given by the person who left it behind on the park bench. So it is not stealing from the original owner or the newspaper. But this is not the scenario we’re discussing, is it?

I don’t think, in the case of WiFi, you are stealing it from the company *as much as* you’re stealing it from the person who is purchasing the service. As with cable, if you run a line from the pole to your house you’re stealing from the company, but if you run a splitter from your neighbor, you’re stealing it from them as well(thier signal is diminished, and as mentioned earlier you can create a problem with the quality of service from WiFi with multiple users also)

I don’t think you’re analogy is quite clear enough. I had a discussion with a woman about napster…she claimed it was no different from reading a book borrowed from someone else….the differene there is when you borrow a book you don’t COPY it, and with napster you have COPIED it. There’s a big difference. Well there’s a difference between reading a paper I bought with my permission and daily sneaking it off my doorstep. Especially if it takes me longer to get my paper while you’re busy reading it over your morning cofee…..

:-)

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