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I don't see the connection. One could maintain that source code is not art and that Michelangelo's works were not graffiti.

I'm sorry, what?

Michelangelo's frescoes were commissioned. I utterly fail to see why anyone should admit they were graffiti.

Providing an outlet for it might be pretty much the same thing as encouraging it.

Now, if you could reliably identify kids who needed the outlet and have them do it, but leave the rest of us alone, that would be fine. But I shudder to think how I would have turned out if I was subjected to the kind of thing you're proposing. I was a pretty impressionable kid.

I am a Westerner and I have no such moral principle.

Because it's faster. You can download torrents with Gnome-do without having to even look at torrent sites.

American. Are you saying Daniel Franke is an anarcho-capitalist?

I enjoyed that essay, although he never cleared up my confusion as to what he meant by libertarian. I generally use it as a synonym for anarchist, but he sounds (and I could be wrong) more like a right libertarian. Is this right?

In case you missed it, (a very nastily formatted copy of) Orwell's Politics and the English Language is on HN's front page at the moment.

Gimp is absolutely a replacement for Photoshop. Not necessarily adequate for professionals, but a replacement nonetheless.

Certainly not. You use eyes to view.

Tengwar, Tolkien's Elvish writing system, had a sort of table of letters instead of an alphabet. If you knew the glyph at the top of each column and the permutation for each row, you could figure out all the characters. It was pretty cool.

So condescending. We don't need to be told that correlation implies causality.

Pardon me, but why isn't there a black 23 in this case?

As I understand it, half of deciding 'fair use' is: -is the use of commercial nature or is it for nonprofit educational purposes? -how does the use affect the potential market?

It seems to me that Nesson might actually have it right: the sharing certainly wasn't for profit, and he seems to have evidence showing that there is no effect on the market.