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# I disagree.
Laws originally were made to allow the goverment to punish immoral people.

Not to stop the acts themselves, but to act as a deterrent.

Y'see recent laws have not been about protecting people, they have been about protecting companies and corporations.

Which is a bad thing.
(I helped save b3ta! tef, Mon 19 Apr 2004, 12:26, archived)
# it ll seems like a bit of a grey area to me
with regards to the web
(m1k3k, Mon 19 Apr 2004, 12:27, archived)
# It's not a grey area
IT IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND THUS ILLEGAL.

You spackers.

However, it is hard to enforce on the web, and most courts would ignore this level of infringement.

So, yeah. It's not a grey area, you're just unlikely to get caught and very unlikely to get sued :)

Unless you do a thomas the wank engine..
(I helped save b3ta! tef, Mon 19 Apr 2004, 12:30, archived)
# hehe
ok so maybe not a grey area but the bottom line is you can either respect the law and not use the images or you can use them anyway knowing that your more then likely going to get away with it.
(m1k3k, Mon 19 Apr 2004, 12:33, archived)
# bingo
a winner is you :D
(I helped save b3ta! tef, Mon 19 Apr 2004, 12:37, archived)
# Laws exist thanks to the same logic Pavlov had with his mutt
If the criminal classes are punished often enough, they might learn that crime doesn't pay. Unfortunately, to be effective such deterrents need to be sufficiently harsh - cf Saudi Arabia with its low crime rates. Unfortunately, even where punishments are harsh, this does not always work - cf. Texas.

In short, no laws are effective, because people are scum and will always commit crime. Therefore we should execute everyone, as this is the only true way of preventing crime.

/David Blunkett
(I helped save b3ta! TV's Nosemonkey, Mon 19 Apr 2004, 12:31, archived)
# Well
That is a sweeping statement.

There has to be at least some legal protection for companies, otherwise most of us wouldn't have jobs.
(Dr Jonah's website is rubbish, Mon 19 Apr 2004, 12:42, archived)