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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   SFTVratings sent the following on 10/26/2009 2:25 PM:   
   > On Oct 26, 1:42 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >> Frank Frank sent the following on 10/26/2009 8:20 AM:   
   >>   
   >>> Greg Goss wrote:   
   >>>> Frank Frank  wrote:   
   >>>>> No thanks to their monopoly. If one business isn't willing to   
   >>>>> manufacture and sell wibbles, I should have the option of buying wibbles   
   >>>> >from another business, really. Get rid of the notion of exclusive,   
   >>>>> authorized, etc., etc., etc. and all these problems for consumers would   
   >>>>> go away.   
   >>>> Then call your government representative and start pushing for a 40   
   >>>> year limit on copyright.   
   >>> It's a little late for that -- I'm already pushing for that limit, only   
   >>> without the extraneous "4" in the number. ;)   
   >> Of course you are.  As are most people who (a) want something for   
   >> nothing .......   
   >   
   >   
   > You just described artists.  They expect to create a masterpiece at   
   > around age 20-30, and then sit on their asses for the rest of their   
   > lives, and still get paid for it.   
      
   Only if people choose to enter into their particular trade agreements.   
   No one has to do any such thing, of course.   
      
   > That's something for nothing.   
      
   Not at all.  If it truly were "nothing," then no one would do it.   
      
   > Payment for lack-of-labor.   
      
   You're free to think that way and to walk away from the transaction.   
   (Isn't a free market wonderful?)   
      
   OTOH, you're *not* free to think that way and obtain it illegally.   
      
   [Rest of lame justification for theft snipped.]   
      
   --   
   Jim Gysin   
   Waukesha, WI   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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