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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Jim Gysin  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   I don't think that what happens a century from now to the title of a   
   work has much influence on the creator of that work.   
   --   
   apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants   
   a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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