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Being in favor of life+ copyrights means having no respect for copyright. If something lasts longer than a human lifetime it can hardly be considered limited in the view anyone alive at that time. Having any support for DRM means having no respect for fair use, DRM prevents fair use copies. Suggesting that having access to something by paying for it is a substitute for having access to something in the public domain means having no respect for public domain, it means seeing it as nothing but free as in beer content instead of the free as in libre content that it is. The public domain can not only be freely views and distributed it can be expanded on, redacted, remashed, remixed, folded, spindled, mutilated, transformed, shifted, printed on a grain of rice, baked into a cake, remastered, changed into space opera changed into soap opera changed into operetta, crossovers, color changes, played backwards, used to inspire song and sculpture, incorporated into a downfall parody, translated to other languages, preformed in klingon or even fed to a grue. People who hold copyrights can place limits on those actions. When things enter the public domain there's more for everyone to draw on for the next art the next invention, Human knowledge expands, there is sunshine and rainbows and I finally get that pony I asked Santa for when I was 9.
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