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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   Then you'd both be wrong. There is nothing self-serving about:   
      
   1. Wanting a market free of government interventions, such as   
       state-granted and state-enforced monopolies.   
   2. Wanting goods to come from a competitive market, and to be   
       able to obtain any desired good for at or not much above   
       its marginal cost.   
   3. Wanting the freedom to build upon our shared culture   
       without fear of stupid lawsuits; culture itself is being   
       carved up into fenced-off fiefdoms by these corporate   
       bullies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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