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    Jim Gysin  wrote:   
      
   > SFTV_troy sent the following on 10/25/2009 5:11 PM:   
   > > On Oct 25, 6:01 am, aemeijers  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >> Shrug. If they don't wanna sell, you have no right to buy. May be   
   > >> annoying, but hardly evil, and they are well within their rights.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > This is why copyright needs to be shortened to 28 years as was true in   
   > > the first U.S. Copyright Act of 1790.  Let culture be free.   
   >   
   > If it's freedom you seek, I'm pretty sure that artists are already free   
   > to forfeit their intellectual property rights any time they want to.  Of   
   > course, they're also free to earn a living from their creativity if they   
   > so choose.  And in return, you're free to respect their respective choices.   
   >   
   > > Besides   
   > > there is not natural right to an idea.  Nature abhors the very idea of   
   > > keeping thoughts confined.  As I can use my candle to light your   
   > > candle, without diminishing my own light, so too can ideas be shared.   
   >   
   > But someone had to have lit the first candle, or you and all of your ilk   
   > would still be sitting in the dark, waiting for your chance to be   
   > parasitic with regard to the light.   
   >   
   > > The current 105 year span (likely to be expanded again by Disney   
   > > lobbying) is ridiculous.   
   >   
   > Why?  Because it's not what you want?   
      
   Yeah, I fail to see how society benefits by non creatives being able to   
   steal other's work.   
      
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