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"4. Economic intervention is wrong. It doesn't matter if copyright give 50000% increase in productivity." -- I'm sorry, but though I can be sympathetic to the s
by mrkafk 17y ago
"4. Economic intervention is wrong. It doesn't matter if copyright give 50000% increase in productivity." -- I'm sorry, but though I can be sympathetic to the sentiment (libertarian here), the political reality is this will thrown out of window in a microsecond by 1) government 2) public. The first is always keen to get ever MORE money, MORE money, and MORE money, and the public is always keen to get more freebies. So both together will completely squash you (us?).
- kiba 17y ago1) I do not care about what government "should do", only what should I do. Yes, I think the government is bad, but this is like telling rapists he shouldn't rape. He will try to rape. Government like to tax, go to war, and fund pork projects. The only revelant question is what you, personally, should or could do something about it? 2) Beside current evidences indicating that copyright is an unnecesary evil(Read Against Intellectual Monopoly for more info) it doesn't matter if any of us are unable to make a living off software because of no copyright because it indicate that individuals would never have want it in the first place. Nobody have the right to any potential profit.