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Old 02-28-2011, 07:38 PM   #593
HamsterRage
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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin View Post
sure, one day in utopia land will be all fat served by little hovering robots while enjoying talking and sharing lame little bad poetry with our chubby facebook friends just next to us.
You know. I'm really find this constant mocking via Utopia reference somewhat tedious and more than a little offensive. The implication, of course, is that the poster being mocked is some pudding headed dreamer incapable of dealing with reality.

But I think you've got it backwards. "Utopia Land" is closer to being some place where people magically all agree on the intrinsic value to society of having full time, professional artists able to sustain themselves through their art alone, and where no one copies their works without express permission and payment to the artist and their agents.

Sorry, but that ship has already sailed. Copyright, at least as far as it applies to individuals and electronic media, is a dead idea. The only practical thing to do is to figure out how to deal with that. Ranting about how "wrong" it is won't achieve anything.
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