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A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars
bonch writes "As an experiment, composer Jason Robert Brown logged onto a site illegally offering his sheet music for download and contacted hundreds of users, politely asking them to stop listing the material. Most complied, some were confused, and a few fought back. Brown chronicles a lengthy exchange he had with a teenage girl named Brenna, which provides an interesting insight into the artists' perspective of the copyright debate. He also responds to several points raised in comments to the article and says, 'I don't wish to be the enemy; I'm just a guy trying to make a living.'"
If you can make unlimited copies of my sandwich without in diminishing the original then you, by all means may.
In fact I'm particularly hungry today so could you make me a copy of said sandwich.
OK, Sudo make me a copy of the sandwich.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Yeah, what's with all that "music" and "movies" and "books" and "video games" etc crap? I just can't understand how anyone in their right mind could need to make or enjoy that stuff, when they could instead go work for a couple more hours per day in the fields or in the mines or something equally real and worthwhile. If everyone worked 16 hours per day instead of just 8 and then wasting the rest, just think about how much more advanced a civilization we'd be.
If you can make a 1:1 copy of my sammich without degrading the original, then please, share away.
I'd say you have a patent but Prior art has been claimed by Jesus Christ
Your'e all thinking it, I just said it for you