So, what's it to him?
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Mr+Ambersand
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I mean, isn't he rich enough that he could simply pay whatever he needed to as he went along? Hell, in this day and age I wouldn't be surprised if he could even write the lobbying off as 'expenses'.
-- "Your admirers in the street Got to hoot and stamp their feet in the heat from your physique" -King Crimson
Re:I'm gathering up the torches, you get the light
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Anonymous Coward
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it's ridiculous though. all pop stars young enough to have been able to copied music on c-cassettes. all the computer game programmers copied computer games.
copying ain't stealing, even if it might be a crime - but a darn petty one at that not even comparable to stealing bread.
name one artist whos life was ruined because of massive copying! SERIOUSLY! NAME ONE! JUST ONE NAME! THERE IS _NOBODY_! THAT IS THE ULTIMATE ARGUMENT!
Re:I'm gathering up the torches, you get the light
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Flaming+Foobar
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How much is your IP worth now?
Nothing, apparently.
Ah, so you are a murderer. Self confessed.
My kid is starving, and you feel that it's somehow your god-given right to share my work with others. Why the hell should I give a damn about your rights, then? Being "a citizen" doesn't give you more rights than "a citizen working for a record company", or does it?
Please stop pissing in the gene pool.
Don't worry, I won't be having any more kids. You see, I have trouble feeding the current one, because for some reason the work I've been doing for living for the past 20 years (I work for a small indie record company) has suddenly lost all its value "because I made the information public".
-- while true;do echo -e -n "\033[s\n\033[u\134_\033[B";done
Re:I'm gathering up the torches, you get the light
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SilverspurG
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My kid is starving, and you feel that it's somehow your god-given right to share my work with others
Pity plea. Welcome to real life. It is a God-given right to share. Did you consider that your work isn't worth what you think it is? Welcome to the real world dose of humility. Mother nature doesn't care about your work. There are scientists all over the world in places like Russia who could probably save mankind from a deadly plague if someone would just look after their rights for them. Guess what? No one does and they're starving every day, freezing in homes that have no heat or electricity because they couldn't pay the bills. Be happy you're not them. Cope.
Why the hell should I give a damn about your rights, then?
You shouldn't and you probably don't. I look after my work and give it only to the people who I must (my employer) or who I trust. If I sell my work, I set the price after weighing the potential for the customer to take my work and replicate it without paying me.
If I fix someone's computer I allow them the opportunity to watch me fix it. It's possible they may never call me again. It's possible they may start fixing other people's computers. That's my intellectual property but I know it might happen and I take it into consideration.
If I synthesize a complex molecule which takes 30 steps and write down the procedure I do so knowing that someone else might take it, might follow it, and I may be obsolete tomorrow. That's life. I hope I can still eat. No one's watching my back.
If I change someone's brakes they might watch me do it. They may change their own brakes next time. I know this full well ahead of time and set my asking price accordingly.
There's nothing sinister about learning or sharing the contents of other people's IP. It's the way of the world. I hope you either meditate or pray to a God or whatever because you need to learn peace of mind. The world does not owe you a living.
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I mean, isn't he rich enough that he could simply pay whatever he needed to as he went along? Hell, in this day and age I wouldn't be surprised if he could even write the lobbying off as 'expenses'.
"Your admirers in the street
Got to hoot and stamp their feet
in the heat from your physique" -King Crimson
it's ridiculous though.
all pop stars young enough to have been able to copied music on c-cassettes.
all the computer game programmers copied computer games.
copying ain't stealing, even if it might be a crime - but a darn petty one at that not even comparable to stealing bread.
name one artist whos life was ruined because of massive copying! SERIOUSLY! NAME ONE! JUST ONE NAME! THERE IS _NOBODY_! THAT IS THE ULTIMATE ARGUMENT!
Nothing, apparently.
Ah, so you are a murderer. Self confessed.
My kid is starving, and you feel that it's somehow your god-given right to share my work with others. Why the hell should I give a damn about your rights, then? Being "a citizen" doesn't give you more rights than "a citizen working for a record company", or does it?
Please stop pissing in the gene pool.
Don't worry, I won't be having any more kids. You see, I have trouble feeding the current one, because for some reason the work I've been doing for living for the past 20 years (I work for a small indie record company) has suddenly lost all its value "because I made the information public".
while true;do echo -e -n "\033[s\n\033[u\134_\033[B";done
You shouldn't and you probably don't. I look after my work and give it only to the people who I must (my employer) or who I trust. If I sell my work, I set the price after weighing the potential for the customer to take my work and replicate it without paying me.
If I fix someone's computer I allow them the opportunity to watch me fix it. It's possible they may never call me again. It's possible they may start fixing other people's computers. That's my intellectual property but I know it might happen and I take it into consideration.
If I synthesize a complex molecule which takes 30 steps and write down the procedure I do so knowing that someone else might take it, might follow it, and I may be obsolete tomorrow. That's life. I hope I can still eat. No one's watching my back.
If I change someone's brakes they might watch me do it. They may change their own brakes next time. I know this full well ahead of time and set my asking price accordingly.
There's nothing sinister about learning or sharing the contents of other people's IP. It's the way of the world. I hope you either meditate or pray to a God or whatever because you need to learn peace of mind. The world does not owe you a living.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.