lesopp
join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL
1 edit | reply to Shamayim
Re: Takes aim at... whistle-blowers?
And pray tell me, why exactly SHOULD they respect copyright? Remember, the US is the #1 Copyright 'holder' in the world. Please tell me the social/economic benefit any other country would have by respecting our copyrights. Sure, the'll 'say' they protect it, but the reality is, us corporations will sell their 'product' to anyone who can buy it.
Bottom line is this. The genie is out of the bottle. If it's DIGITAL, a perfect copy can be made. There is NO GAME out there that has not been cracked. There is NO MOVIE that has not been copied. As soon as 1 copy is made, it WILL be distributed. What this 'law' is trying to do is make it 'harder' for the average customer to get information. Remember, information WANTS to be free, and the shackles of copyright and DRM are not natural. Damn, until mickey came along, NO-ONE in the history of the world had 'copyrights'. Ideas were shared with whomever wanted to share them, and the WORLD advanced because of it. It's only since the greed of capitalism have we tried to put an artificial scarcity on the products have we seen this become a problem.
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The happiest countries are the most secular. The struggle AGAINST corporations is the struggle FOR humanity!
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