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Old 09-15-2013, 12:33 PM   #33
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Why humans only? Is it because you don't want authors to make money? Or do you have an irrational hatred of corporations?
Because it is ownership of imaginary property by corporate persons that has created the current mess.

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Do you understand that no individual is going to *ever* risk $300 million to make something like "Lord of the Rings?"
This is a specious argument. A corporation doesn't have to own the copyright to "Lord of the Rings" to make the investment in a movie based on it.

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Corporations are not some evil boogey man that exist to oppress you.
This is just condescending.
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