Re: [GD-General] Pro-IP bill passed the house: User-created

[Crosbie F. <cr...@cy...>]

> From: Bob
> Copyright allows an author to sell, or license, many copies of an 
> easily-duplicated property to individuals for a very small 
> price

There have been people making good arguments against copyright long before
me, but the fact that it is unethical and unnatural is beside the point.

If you feel that copyright is going to continue to be viable given the
natural mechanics of the digital domain, then sure, stick with it.

Because of my research I now recognise it as unethical and so I can never
countenance going back to it, but we can leave ethical considerations as a
personal choice - whilst such unethical legislation still stands.

It is not too difficult to understand the mechanism of copyright (despite
its unethical suspension of the public's liberty), but it is not viable in
an environment in which diffusion of digital works cannot be controlled.

Either those people who are beginning to operate and develop non-copyright
based business models are living in a fantasy world and can be ignored as
passengers on the B Ark, or they are simply evidence that human beings are
incredibly adaptable to change (the change in copyright's effectiveness).