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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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I would recommend that you listen to
http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html
which is a very interesting talk by Lawrence Lessig and gives some of the history of modern intellectual property rights.
There is nothing common sense about how intellectual property laws works today.