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Any candidate not aggressively campaigning against our too restrictive IP system should be subject to political suicide. If you're not publicly against IP you don't get any votes.
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"If consumers have to pay more for works of authorship, they will have less to spend on everything else." Exactly. The content companies are basically saying, "if you give us more money, there will be...
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Have an insightful vote AC#1. However it goes a good bit further than that. Both political parties have been bought out by big money. Why do you think that no big bankers/CEOs/board members have went...
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I like how The Broken Window Fallacy was mentioned in the last of Lunney's quotes... but not by name. :)
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Culture is so important that the government buys wholesale cultural works and gives it to the people for free through the public library, so that everyone, rich and poor, can share the culture and...
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The system has always been corrupt. The United States was designed to be corrupt, since they knew corruption would happen regardless. They knew everyone was going to try to make the system work for them.
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"limit the nature of the "exclusive rights" that Congress may grant" The Constitution never empowered Congress to grant copyright or patent in the first place. People just think it did - because...
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Crosbie, you bring this up over and over again, and I know you believe it, but for what you say to be true, it would mean that the people who passed the very first US copyright law -- which were...
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Not quite - The William Blake quote applies here: The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry.
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Mike, for me, the US Constitution and the 18th century privilege of copyright that preceded and followed it is not a matter of belief - though it may be so for most. The person (James Madison viz...
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Crosbie, you bring this up over and over again, and I know you believe it, but for what you say to be true, it would mean that the people who passed the very first US copyright law -- which were...
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"Exactly. The content companies are basically saying, 'if you give us more money, there will be larger table scraps for the actual artists to get paid.' They argue for their own benefit to the...
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Geez . .. by that logic, Mike everything should be free so there is more money for everything else. Mercantilism is the OPPOSITE of copyright, sir. The point is that private property creates the...
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If the copyright maximalists had it their way, nobody would be allowed to copy anything, not even for personal use. Let's be frank here. This discussion isn't about making content available to everyone...
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There's a few paragraphs about the fallacy by name in the article. I'm not sure I buy the argument. So copyright is bad because the money we spend on copyrighted works could have been spent elsewhere?...
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"The whole system needs rebuilt from the ground up" Flawed logic. One does not renovate a home with a bulldozer. A sawzall might be more useful.
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Real Michael - actually, um, we do put policemen on the street to protect your house, your car. We have courts to protect your private property and your bank account and your right to get paid on...
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"the money we spend on copyrighted works could have been spent elsewhere" Apparently less is being spent on copyright material and this what the copyright cartel is whining about. Those damn filthy...
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