Every [employer] should have the right to [know what you did last weekend], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
Every [government] should have the right to [know your personal beliefs on every issue you have ever cared to discus], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
Every [corporation] should have the right to [research your life to be used for directed marketing], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
Every [insurance company] should have the right to [your medical history], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
I don't think many people like the symptoms, but maybe we should stay focused on the actual problem.
We kind of already found an answer to the fundamental flaw in IP type distribution methods. It was the copyright system. A long time ago, people noticed the difference between making books and cars. Books, music, poems, games, and such were much less costly to reproduce than to initially create as compared to something like a car. So we all kind of made a deal with the content producers. The people said that they would refrain from copying their stuff for a small period of time so that they could recover their investment into the IP's creation and earn a profit. Intern for that grace period, that work would then fall into the public domain after a reasonable amount of time had passed. Well, they broke their end of the deal by changing the rules and never letting their copyrights leave the grace period, so I just don't fell bad about breaking my end of the deal.
Copyright is not a natural right. It was created by compromise between the public and the content creators. Until they come back to the negotiation table they are going to have all the problems they are having for the obvious reasons they are having them.
Most companies start out as a hobbyist that begins to turn a profit. The article said what he was working on and that he was in the process of selling it. Obviously, there was a basic simple concept that hadn't quite yet been used in the useful way he was doing it.
The same goes with video games. Some guy in a garage doesn't just spit out Sins of a Solar Empire. They start out by seeing a need, filling it, and reinvesting any money made into growing their business. Stopping people from having the opportunity to work toward something like that just hurts us all in the long run.
The same goes for road rage. You would never run down the hallway at work, while on your cell phone, yelling at all the other people who are not full out sprinting. But you sure would on your way there in the morning.
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Do you have to order and eat 10 loafs of bread and 10 glasses of water before you can have a bowl of soup and some milk?
Every [employer] should have the right to [know what you did last weekend], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
Every [government] should have the right to [know your personal beliefs on every issue you have ever cared to discus], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
Every [corporation] should have the right to [research your life to be used for directed marketing], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
Every [insurance company] should have the right to [your medical history], but it's not something one wants to encourage.
I don't think many people like the symptoms, but maybe we should stay focused on the actual problem.
We kind of already found an answer to the fundamental flaw in IP type distribution methods. It was the copyright system. A long time ago, people noticed the difference between making books and cars. Books, music, poems, games, and such were much less costly to reproduce than to initially create as compared to something like a car. So we all kind of made a deal with the content producers. The people said that they would refrain from copying their stuff for a small period of time so that they could recover their investment into the IP's creation and earn a profit. Intern for that grace period, that work would then fall into the public domain after a reasonable amount of time had passed. Well, they broke their end of the deal by changing the rules and never letting their copyrights leave the grace period, so I just don't fell bad about breaking my end of the deal.
Copyright is not a natural right. It was created by compromise between the public and the content creators. Until they come back to the negotiation table they are going to have all the problems they are having for the obvious reasons they are having them.
i humbly submit this isn't possible anymore.
Most companies start out as a hobbyist that begins to turn a profit. The article said what he was working on and that he was in the process of selling it. Obviously, there was a basic simple concept that hadn't quite yet been used in the useful way he was doing it.
The same goes with video games. Some guy in a garage doesn't just spit out Sins of a Solar Empire. They start out by seeing a need, filling it, and reinvesting any money made into growing their business. Stopping people from having the opportunity to work toward something like that just hurts us all in the long run.
The same goes for road rage. You would never run down the hallway at work, while on your cell phone, yelling at all the other people who are not full out sprinting. But you sure would on your way there in the morning.