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Originally Posted by pricecw
Look at it this way, copyright is a license from society to the creators to use work that belongs to society for a time (should be brief, but currently isn't) to compensate that creator for creating that work for society. Copyright has always been based on that concept. The work doesn't belong to the creator, upon creation it belongs to society, and for the good of society, it was determined the least evil way of getting that work would be for the society to grant a temporary monopoly license to that work.
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That may well be the rational behind copyright, but that's a bunch of socialist/communist bull crap is what it is.
F*** the good of society. If I was blessed with talent I'd be creating stuff to make as much money as I can, not for the good of society. People suck.
I just find the notion that people have to create stuff for the good of society offensive on all levels. Anyone can choose to do so. They should also be able to choose to make stuff solely for profit just like corporations like Microsoft etc.