Nikhil;199353 Wrote: > Thats an extremely simplistic and incorrect way of thinking about it. If > I spend 10 years of my life developing a therapeutic molecule or drug, > only to have someone reverse engineer it, manufacture it, and make > money off it, while I received nothing (even if the original recipe is > still in my hands) - it most certainly is no different than stealing, > and should be treated as a crime. And similarly it is no different for > artists and their creations.
It is quite different from stealing. Copyright is supposed to be a BALANCE, an incentive to invent things that eventually end up owned by all. To this end, certain limited rights are granted BY THE PUBLIC to the inventor for a limited amount of time. And this is another example of how the IP industry breaches their contracts. Whenever Mickey Mouse is due to enter the public domain, a few well-placed donations to key Congresscritters ensures that Mickey AND ALL OTHER WORKS of intellectual property, even those no longer maintained or offered for sale, have their copyrights extended for decades more. The public domain, which OWNS these works, never actually gets them. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
