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Originally Posted by Iphinome
Well that's that then isn't it? You want laws that do not benefit the people providing the legal protections. Would you also like a tax on widows and orphans to be used to build swimming pools for CEOs? Why have copyright at all? If someone gets a short term monopoly in exchange for a bigger better public domain that's great, if they get a permanent monopoly what reason does anyone have to respect it? Ideas aren't property, things are property and when someone makes more of a thing the one you have doesn't go away so don't come at me with property rights.
If this is where we stand, everything for you forever and nothing for the society that made it possible then I'm just plain not interested. To hell with you.
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Registered ideas are a form of property. We want a society where everyone, including writers, has a chance to make a living by one's work. Stop chasing windmills (and rant about permanent copyrights, nobody here is arguing in favor of that), why should a writer work for free when you don't? The way to advance society is not by ensuring that you get a free lunch. Society would never have these works without them, so how can writers owe society something, other than taxes?