XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:19:34 -0500, Jim Gysin wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   > In terms of the bigger picture, it never ceases to amaze me when people   
   > fail to see the damaging effects of the disincentives that they're so   
   > willing to promote.  And it's not just as it relates to creative types,   
   > but to the best of the best in anything.  Few people will make an effort   
   > to stand out and produce great things if the end result is that a horde   
   > of ingrates steal their output or decide, by judicial thuggery, to tell   
   > them how much their efforts are worth in a "fair" society.  It's   
   > parasitism at its worst.   
      
   Strawman, everyone on this thread except for 1 person wants some   
   reasonable term of copyright to enable creators to reap a benefit and   
   continue creating.   
      
      
   --   
   "Thomas Jefferson, for one, considered copyright a necessary evil: he   
   favored providing just enough incentive to create, nothing more, and   
   thereafter allowing ideas to flow freely, as nature intended." - Jonathan   
   Lethem   
      
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