XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   Jim Gysin wrote:   
   > trag sent the following on 10/28/2009 12:26 PM:   
   >> Because the "natural" alternative is zero, not forever.   You show   
   >> something to someone else, they now have the ability to copy it.   The   
   >> only reason they do not is because the rest of society saw some   
   >> interest in *granting* you a monopoly for a limited period of time.   
   >> Your property interest in an idea is not *yours* unless you choose to   
   >> share it with no one.   You only get to treat it as a property   
   >> interest because society has elected to help you do so for society's   
   >> benefit.   
   >   
   > I really love how the parasitic mindset here is working so hard to   
   > justify thuggery and theft and the use of force   
      
   The only one who has even mentioned the thought of repealing laws   
   against theft and murder here, so far, is you, in the same post I'm   
   quoting another part of here.   
      
   There's a world of difference between justifying, say, filesharing and   
   justifying "thuggery and theft and the use of force".   
      
   > whereas I'm only advocating a free market in which the buyer and seller   
   > are both free to trade, or to not trade.   
      
   Really? I thought you were advocating copyright, which is a RESTRAINT of   
   trade.   
      
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