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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Is it stealing when you create a work under one copyright law/length and then change the law to make it longer? Didn't you steal from the public? Or is stealing from the public ok?
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The old "they deserve to be stolen from" argument doesn't fly with me. Laws change.
The vast amount of piracy isn't about works of old. It's not about stealing works from the 30's or 40's. It's about getting the popular songs, music, ebooks of the here and now without paying for them.
There may well come a time when the free loaders of society become such the norm, that the producers will simply stop. The whole "I want the product of artists but don't want to pay for them" is not viable in the long term.
There are enough people who pay, who honor the value of someone else's labor -- today. But that is not a certainty for the future.
Lee