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Originally Posted by rlauzon
This thread is about "copyright morality". Copyright is no longer moral. It is disrespectful to the public. Your expectations that the public should respect copyright is not realistic.
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The concept of copyright, a way to compensate people for intellectual works, is the highest morality. It addresses an unfairness visited upon them by people who refuse to understand the value of something they can't hold in their hand, or toss down their throats. Denying such an obvious concept is, in fact, taking us back down the road to the Dark Ages and Might Makes Right.
My expectations that the public should respect copyright is common sense. Copyright law may need revising or updating, but that doesn't make it worthless, nor immoral. Strangling the dissemination of ideas by denying due compensation is totalitarian and historically proven to be counter-productive, and that's all you'd accomplish by just abolishing copyright.