[MPlayer-users] Rescuing a scratched DVD

[Joe Neeman]

> > > (If cursing is illegal and you say a curse word in a forest and no one
> > > hears, are you guilty? No. Same deal here.)
> >
> > So if you break into someone's house and no one is around to see you, 
>that
> > makes it legal does it?
>
>No, because there are outside visible effects that make it possible to
>distinguish whether a crime was committed or not. My point in the DVD
>copying case (and cursing in the woods) is that there is no measurable
>outside effect by which you can determine whether the copy was made
>from the original DVD or the rented one.
>
>Any law that makes one thing illegal, and another legal, when both
>have identically measured results, is broken and unenforcible, since
>there's no way to establish in a court that the illegal action was
>taken rather than the legal one.

If cursing is illegal and you curse in the woods where no one can hear you, 
you are guilty.
If you copy a rented DVD, that is illegal. Whether or not it matters is a 
different story ;)

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