Lessig's "In Defense of Piracy"

chromakey writes "The Wall Street Journal is running an essay from Lawrence Lessig about the fair use of copyrighted material on the Internet. He makes the case that companies who go to extreme lengths to squash minor videos, such as Universal, are stifling creativity in the modern era. Lessig makes specific reference to a YouTube video that was hit by a DMCA takedown notice, in which a 13-month-old child is dancing to a nearly inaudible soundtrack of Prince's 'Let's Go Crazy.' Lawrence Lessig is a board member for the Electronic Frontier Foundation."

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Re:Why should everything bring a profit?

[blahplusplus]

"...their plants release into the atmosphere."

Note on "their plants", farmers did not create plants, in fact nobody is creating value, all they are doing is reshaping pre-existing value. This myth of "added value" is a bit of idealogical misunderstanding, you can't get value if you don't have any value to begin with - all value was already their in nature.

Re:Why should everything bring a profit?

[cliffski]

so who planted them, and created the best conditions for them to grow? and fed them in some cases with the right mixtures of fertilizer etc?
you?
This all takes effort. And that effort needs to be rewarded, else there is no incentive to plant anything, and hence, you get an empty plate.

Re:Why should everything bring a profit?

[cliffski]

wrong again as usual. I never said all effort should be rewarded, but you enjoy your strawman kid.
If you want farmers to plant those crops, you need to pay them. else they have no incentive to do so, and you go hungry.
do you grasp the concept yet?
Or do you still delude yourself that other people will run around providing goods and services top you for free because you have an automatic entitlement to everything?