-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Todd Walton wrote: > So, the movie industry is like a caged dog. Throw it a meaty bone > once in a while so it stays alive and makes a nice pet, but don't let > it get too full.
Not flamebait at all. That is precisely what I mean. Copyrights exist (supposedly) for your benefit and mine. They exist for the sole purpose that one day the creations will go into the public domain and we can all enjoy them. > I don't mean that as flamebait. What I mean is that copyrights (and > *anything* government) should not be decided on the practical effect > it has, but on ideology. Is it right or is it not? The individuals > who comprise "the movie industry" are real human beings, and have > human rights. If they're entitled to own the movies they make, then > there's no reason we should ever take away that entitlement. Sure they are real human beings and if they can't make a living doing movies they need to find another job. I don't hear anyone crying for the poor buggy whip makers. The difference is that the buggy whip industry was a free market whereas the movie industry is not. It has special government protections. Copyrights are all about practical effect. It is practical to have new technologies invented that make our lives better. It is practical to have entertainment. > Certainly not arbitrarily like that. And if they're *not* entitled to > own the movies they make, then we shouldn't even pretend like it in > the first place, because then we're removing the right that the rest > of us have to use/copy/view the movie as we like. Arbitrary? If it makes our lives better and would not be invented/created otherwise it should be protected by copyright. If it does not make our lives better or it would have been invented/created anyway then it should not be protected by copyright. I don't see that as arbitrary at all. Copyright is very costly to the taxpayers. My tax money is supposed to fund infrastructure and services which benefit me. Not make someone else rich. - -- Tracy R Reed http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCW3aA9PIYKZYVAq0RAgXqAJ9iUNMzAPlzAQ16QLJudyrRB04grwCggVKT Icsm6pTfA6MvhgjvhykOhG8= =bJT6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
