by The_Piper wrote:purplerat wrote:tuco wrote:purplerat wrote:It's funny how people only want the law to work one way. This is pretty typical though, people are all about freedom until it adversely affects them. The drone owner wants the freedom to fly it wherever he likes but when the home owner wants to send a bullet the same way that should be illegal. Privacy doesn't matter except once you say drone owners should need to register with the government then that's an issue.
Issue for who? Who are these people you talk about? The only thing that is "funny" about this case that if it happened in most other parts of civilized world there would be no shooting. That is .. funny.
People who think that privacy rights aren't worth protecting but property rights are. What makes one more important than the other?
No one can dump garbage, or build a house and live in your backyard. To me, that makes property rights more important. I like privacy rights too, to a point. A drone hovering 20 feet overhead is obviously not ok. (Flying by enroute to somewhere else is ok.) But backyards in residential neighborhoods often can be seen from neighbors windows. At our house I had 8 other residential houses and buildings in the line of sight where someone theoretically could have been filming us in the backyard. From the front there were other houses. You'd have to put walls and a roof over your backyard there if you wanted privacy. Where I live now I just have to worry about scenic tour spy planes and sexually predatory flying go karts.
What do people do when their house is in the line of sight of a traffic or security cam? Pound sand, I think?
So you're saying that you would put up with someone filming would you because they had a window looking over your yard? What the fuck kind of neighbourhood do you live in where your neighbours stare at you and record you and your kids from their windows. Your that much of a wuss you put up with that kind of shit?
