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From: jimgysin@geemail.com
Anim8rFSK sent the following on 10/27/2009 12:15 AM:
> In article ,
> Jim Gysin wrote:
>
>> Anim8rFSK sent the following on 10/26/2009 4:17 PM:
>>> In article ,
>>> 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.
>> We probably both already know that it has nothing to do with benefiting
>> society and everything to do with benefiting the selfish and
>> self-serving SFTV_troys and Frank Franks of the world.
>
> Yep
Whatever allows them to sleep at night, I guess.
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Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI
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