This whole copyright issue is getting way out of hand. To control how content that is created is used is just insane it is like buying food and saying you can only have white wine with seafood and chicken because thats how the vineyard that created it intended for it to be used. There should be no restriction of how it is used by the the person buying the content but the restriction should be on redistribution in any form. For instance taking a song and putting it through a mixer to create a different sound should be ok but taking that song (altered or not) and putting it on the web or selling CDs without permission or some kind of agreement with the copyright holder is wrong. So my general thought about copyright is that copyright should protect copyright holders from redistribution of their content and not give them the say about how it should be used.
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This whole copyright issue is getting way out of hand. To control how content that is created is used is just insane it is like buying food and saying you can only have white wine with seafood and chicken because thats how the vineyard that created it intended for it to be used. There should be no restriction of how it is used by the the person buying the content but the restriction should be on redistribution in any form. For instance taking a song and putting it through a mixer to create a different sound should be ok but taking that song (altered or not) and putting it on the web or selling CDs without permission or some kind of agreement with the copyright holder is wrong. So my general thought about copyright is that copyright should protect copyright holders from redistribution of their content and not give them the say about how it should be used.