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Originally Posted by leebase
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
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You didn't answer the question. UP to 1976, all copyrighted work was created and sold under a max copyright of 56 years. Nobody made anybody produce under those terms. Everybody did it voluntarily, eyes wide open.
Today, under those terms, everything created before 1955 would be public domain, today. Books, music, movies, pictures - all of it.
I say the fact that it isn't is Stealing, just as much as all those examples you gave. What say you?
Laws change? so if we bribed Congress to shorten copyright to 1 day, that would be Ok also? After the day, there'd be no stealing by your terms, right?
To claim the moral high ground, you must be equally moral. that means little things like honoring contracts.....