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Old 10-11-2013, 05:18 PM   #195
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
If you want to know why the the "evil corporation" meme exists for copyrights...

Check this link...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...c-domain.shtml

If an individual did this, they'd be serving 20-to-life for extortion...
Yes, and not to be hyperbolic, but, seriously, I know women who know men who raped them. Does that mean I should shoot you on sight?

One egregious act does not a trend make. Many egregious acts create a trend. In the cosmic scope of all the copyrighted works in the world, that now or have ever existed, seriously, how many have a history like this one? Even if there are 10, or 20 or 100--it's still silliness in the scope of millions of copyrighted works. Millions. How many works did the EU alone determine might be lost? How many millions? Which indicates many millions more that aren't lost.

So, come on, guys--can we at least agree that in any business, or type of business, or in any personal arrangement, or types of personal arrangements, bad things will occasionally happen? Brides will be left standing at the altar, guys will get dumped and not get an engagement ring back; terrible people will divorce nice people and their attorneys will rip off the nice one for the bad one; real estate deals will occasionally rip someone off.

Publishing isn't "special" in terms of simply being a business. That's all it is. That it encompasses what may well be art doesn't make it less of a business, or less of a vocation, as, hopefully, we've covered earlier. In any business, there will be bad people or crooks or victims. ANY BUSINESS or ANY personal business. That's life. Life isn't fair. So what?

To determine whether "corporations are evil" in the scope of copyright, you cannot look at one or two or even 50 instances. Certainly you can find an egregious case. You have to look at what publishing and media corporations have done over the entirety of all their actions vis-a-vis copyright--not just holding up a few scandalous situations.

Otherwise, you're skewing the facts when creating your opinions, and if you're going to do that, there's no point at all in bothering with facts.

As is rather famously oft-cited "no amount of fact will ever alter entrenched belief," but I'd like to think that MR'ers, in particular, are better than that.

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