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[Jim Lee]

Thank you for that post - very appropriate material for MLK Jr.'s  
birthday today.

It was not my intent to insinuate that civil disobedience should  
necessarily be applied to copyright law - I was merely pointing out  
one way that the law can, and sometimes should, be superseded by the  
people.

-Jim

On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Lord Groundhog wrote:
>
>
> Yes, sometimes the law needs to be opposed outright.  But that isn't
> something to be done lightly.  And as a veteran of the civil rights  
> movement
> and the 1960s peace movement, I'm glad to hear you include the
> responsibility of the person carrying out civil disobedience to take  
> the
> consequences for his/her actions.  But as was made clear to us by  
> people
> like Martin Luther King, civil disobedience ought to be reserved for  
> when
> existing laws result in genuinely significant breaches of natural  
> justice
> and moral decency.
[snip]