Why are there laws outlawing spam? Using the same kind of logic the piracy advocates use, there is no harm done by spam... if you don't like it, delete the messages. What can be easier? Censorship is damage!
The difference, it seems to me, is that UCE negatively affects a much larger group of people. What is more, many folks are getting more and more annoyed at the big media companies for their anti-competitive and price-gouging ways.
Whether that makes it right, I'm not going to weigh in. But I get it. Don't you?
-- No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday December 15 2014, @04:45AM
Why are there laws outlawing spam? Using the same kind of logic the piracy advocates use, there is no harm done by spam... if you don't like it, delete the messages. What can be easier? Censorship is damage!
The difference, it seems to me, is that UCE negatively affects a much larger group of people. What is more, many folks are getting more and more annoyed at the big media companies for their anti-competitive and price-gouging ways.
Whether that makes it right, I'm not going to weigh in. But I get it. Don't you?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr