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It isn't free god dammit, the problem is not me its you not respecting PUBLIC property. Who did Disney pay for the story of Snow White or Cinderella or for that matter steamboat Willy. He took it. You take. Copyright is what pays for things you cannot treat it like a hammer or a pair of boots, you buy those but your copyright is not something you pay for until it expires. You are the one who doesn't get it why should anyone pay you for what already belongs to them. You are the one with no respect for copyright because it isn't for you its for everyone. YOU abuse the protection. YOU violate the social contract when you keep for yourself, and for money the shared culture. I care about something bigger but I don't aspire to be Gordon Gekko and I'm no writer myself, I'm clearly bad at explaining things so go read Cory Doctorw or Larwence Lessig's works sometime. Learn that there's a balance that YOU ARE NOT PAYING FOR.
This obsession that copyrights should be free and eternal needs to be from the collective consciousness. Nothing of entertainment value CAN be made without drawing on what came before. Pay for what you took or honestly you're nto deserving of copyright protection at all.
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