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Old 03-14-2010, 11:09 AM   #308
Greg Anos
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
This is all very simple to figure out, and it has nothing to do with copyright or IP. It's a generational conflict. The same baby-boomers that screwed over the younger generations (and will continue to do so in the coming years) don't have any music to complain about like their parents did (popular music now being as threatening as yoghurt), so they shift all that age-rage over to IP and file-sharing. Young people, being young and excited by new things, don't see any problem with copying. The *cough* older generations need something to complain about, then you add a little physical nostalgia into the mix, and the copyright=theft argument becomes the digital equivalent of 'get off my lawn'.

So don't worry If you're under 40 and you can rub two brain cells together to start an idea, the world is yours. The baby boomers will die off soon enough, the lawns will grow, and sometime in the future we'll all have to mow them too.

Moejoe, some of us geezers don't mind kids on the lawn (and our brain cells have totally ossified....)
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