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Originally Posted by Iphinome
How are these things created for society when society never gets them? Walt Disney died in 1966 when do we get the short film he made with a mouse that completely ripped off a Buster Keaton movie?
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You're not getting it: You can have it, anytime, by paying for it! It's out there! You can buy it! Or not! Your choice!
Whereas, without copyright protections, Walt Disney might have made his living selling tires, and there would be no cartoon to have! At all! You have no choice, because there is nothing to choose! See how it works?
This obsession with getting things for free needs to be excised from the collective consciousness. Nothing of entertainment value HAS to be free! That's a fringe benefit that will not destroy our society if it is not obtained.