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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I'm not sure what the holocaust has to do with copyright either, and the dropping of the abomb is way out there, but all things are related, maybe we will find the links one day and stop these types of things from occuring in the future, abolishment of copyright is a step in this direction.
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If you abolish of copyright (and if you distribute copyrighted material on the net right now) you are doing to writers what the Nazis did to the Jews. You are declaring them non persons (people whose work is not worth getting paid for and whose things can be taken away at will), you are telling the "Arbeit macht frei". You are making them your slaves who work for you for free. You disrespect the rights of others for your personal benefit. How that should take humanity in the right direction to stop other bad things from happening is beyond me.
Yes, the technology is there to copy freely. The technology is also there to make anybody work for you for free -- it is called a gun. Should we condone its use just because it exists? Should we even encourage the use of technology to trample on people's rights, as you suggest? Or should we try to educate people to be fair to everybody, even if his or her work can easily be reproduced in digital form? One can argue about the length of the terms for copyright, the conditions -- but no copyright? It makes no sense at all.