informationweek.com— Fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws account for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the Computer and Communications Industry Association.
Sep 13, 2007View in Crawl 4
If I take the time to write software, a book, screenplay, or song, why should someone else get to profit from my work? What incentive do I have to express a new idea, if someone else can lay claim to it, as if I never existed?
Ideas can not be owned. They can not be controlled. The only way to control them is through force, and even that doesn't work. To back up your idea of ownership, you have to back it up with the barrel of a gun. That's exactly why I have no interest in paying for any kind of mainstream media product, they believe they believe they're entitled to ideas that somebody else came up with. Most artists just want to be able to make some sort of money off their work, while multi-millionaires cry about people "stealing" their "art." Even though their dominance in the free (not) market is backed by force. It is black and white, it's about violence and nonviolence. If you believe you have the right to put a bullet into somebody else's head for stealing an idea then you deserve to be opposed and fought against.
cygnus2112Sep 13, 2007
Just don't let the music industry know that their artists are usually some of the biggest abusers of copyright laws.
lllsecretchimpSep 13, 2007
And two Wrights made an airplane.
Closed AccountSep 13, 2007
If I take the time to write software, a book, screenplay, or song, why should someone else get to profit from my work? What incentive do I have to express a new idea, if someone else can lay claim to it, as if I never existed?
Closed AccountSep 14, 2007
You duped my story!
j0kerSep 14, 2007
Ideas can not be owned. They can not be controlled. The only way to control them is through force, and even that doesn't work. To back up your idea of ownership, you have to back it up with the barrel of a gun. That's exactly why I have no interest in paying for any kind of mainstream media product, they believe they believe they're entitled to ideas that somebody else came up with. Most artists just want to be able to make some sort of money off their work, while multi-millionaires cry about people "stealing" their "art." Even though their dominance in the free (not) market is backed by force. It is black and white, it's about violence and nonviolence. If you believe you have the right to put a bullet into somebody else's head for stealing an idea then you deserve to be opposed and fought against.
daftmanSep 16, 2007
Too bad you live in the same world as me.