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Originally Posted by kennyc
Sorry, but thats the way the system currently works. As I said if you have issues with it then work to change it. Posting here won't do it.
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The fact that you're apologizing for the "system" looks like progress to me.
FYI, a system or business model predicated against the will of the people on the coercive enforcement of artificial scarcity is bound to fail. It creates a bubble which protects the privileged group from the "destructive" forces of capitalism, but which, as it inevitably expands, growing exponentially in surface area and thus thinner, becomes more and more susceptible to market forces, until it bursts.
The pain that might have been suffered had the bubble never been erected in the first place is multiplied at this juncture by the weight of all the parasitic entities which attached themselves to its ever expanding surface, thus at times leading to cataclysmic disasters which, of course, could have easily been avoided had the free market simply been allowed to correct itself at the outset.
The People are the market forces the current copyright bubble attempts to defend against. They are not seen as equals in the social contract, but as evils to be controlled and, preferably, avoided entirely. This attitude is unsustainable, and WILL fail, no revolution necessary.
However, it is my preference that we preemptively burst the current bubble, preferably in a way that minimizes the pain. Then we can discuss whether or not a bubble of any size is necessary in the first place.