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People who defend copyright take copyright for given, as that would be the normal state which can not be questioned. Don't pretend to a higher level of intellec
by np422 13y ago
People who defend copyright take copyright for given, as that would be the normal state which can not be questioned. Don't pretend to a higher level of intellectual honesty or moral strength. Your position can lay claim to neither.
Culture, creativity and art have existed long before copyright and will continue to do so after it has been abandoned.
- eropple 13y agoEr...no? Like, completely no? I don't care if you question it. Question it all you like. But if you want to claim it doesn't work, you have a long road to hoe. Personally, "I get other people's work for free" is outweighed by "I get other people's work that I actually want to play." Skyrim doesn't come out of a Kickstarter.
- np422 13y ago(I actually had to google skyrim, I'm that old ...) Please take a few minutes to rethink copyright from the ground up without any regards to what you have been told by anyone... Where does copyright originate? What purpose does it serve in the society of today? Does it serve that purpose well? How does it match up to what most people would consider to be fair use in regards to personal and commercial use? Does copyright sometimes get abused and misused? Are there better solutions to the issues we are trying to address? You don't need to tell me or anybody else what conclusion you reach. But you owe it to yourself to think it over and stop repeating what you have been told by others as most people here on HN does every time copyright gets discussed.