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Originally Posted by HansTWN
This poll is a great example of how the way the question is phrased predetermines the outcome of the poll. It was obviously designed to give two unacceptable choices and thus try to get people to vote for no copyright at all (as the lesser of two great evils).
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Heh...
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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
Even just offering the extremes helps clarify where people really stand. It is clear given the choice between no copyright and perpetual copyright, most people would choose the former, even though clearly our legal and political systems are moving towards the latter. It provides perspective on where we are on this issue.
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It's a false choice. It forces the voter to choose between two extreme and unlikely scenarios, and becomes a vote against what frightens the voter most. Since the real answers are somewhere in-between, and not likely to be as scary as these extreme alternatives, the vote actually means nothing other than an indication of what the voter is afraid of.
As to the outcome, that only indicates a majority of consumers as opposed to creators here.