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Originally Posted by stonetools
I've directly answered you before on this, on post # 106. I guess you (like many, many others on this thread) don't understand why establishing and defending the IP rights of creators are in fact highly beneficial in the long run to end users , even though at first they may be disadvantageous and inconvenient to the end user. The founding fathers understood this concept over 200 years ago: I would have thought it would be immediately obvious to folk today. But I guess digital changes everything.
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Pardon me for being late to the de-bate, but my tinfoil hat was tuning things out.
I'm glad you brought up the Founding Fathers. What
precisely did they say, and what
precisely did they do? I'll let others quote the US Constitution, but they set both copyright and patent at 34 years maximum.
I'll make you a trade, (a
deal deal, as Don Rickles said in
Kelly's Heroes).
You sing the praises of 34 years max copyright, and I'll sing the praises of DRM. Fair enough?
And remember, the Golden Age of Hollywood was created iunder a max copyright of 56 years. Nobody was screaming "I can't/won't produce because my grandchildren won't have my copyright revenue in their retirement."
Or is this too tough for a K-Street Kommando?