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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Content holders should have a monopoly over their creative work they choose to create to sell for profit.
Nothing is stopping anyone from creating content and giving it away for free.
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For the first part, why? We have a public domain for a reason. People can go in change the body lines file off the serial numbers and then add a fancy new horn, why shouldn't everyone get access to that new horn the way they have access to the unmodified version, if someone comes up with a similar new horn why should they be stopped because the horn was someone else's idea? why shouldn't the common culture be shared? I know I'm taking about something that would be a patent not a copyright but a patent lasts for 20 years, copyright can easily last for 150 years what justification is there for giving anyone an 150 year monopoly? In what way does this promote the progress of the useful arts?
Second part
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ctual-property
They copyright lobby who you seem to be supporting for reasons that are beyond me claim that making your own equivalent and giving it away for free is akin to piracy since it undermines their buisness model of making you pay. A simple analogy would be instillation and use of free water fountains is stealing money from hard working starbucks executives by allowing people to have something, anything to drink without having to pay $8.
Why are you defending these people and this system. You're not helping authors, they're getting screwed over by publishers you're suggesting insect repellent to someone being eaten by a bear.