Nope, this is not theft. We've had laws against theft of physical objects for thousands of years. I would agree on theft if I stole the CD on which the music was stored. Music, ideas and stories have not been a commodity for thousands of years, they have been freely available, and shared. It wasn't before we got the possibility of mass producing media like books, and somebody started making money on publishing, we got copyrights. The copyright is in my eyes not a tool made to protect the artist/composer, it is a tool mad to protect the publisher.
Isnt it about time somebody wrote some legaleese for an antipatent and started a repository for such antipatents. The antipatent should prohibit the patenting of an antipatended idea, and everybody should be able to antipatent whatever idea they had.
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Hey, let's sue the Bible for causing wars and suffering throughout the history. Hell, while we're at it, let's just sue God...
Nope, this is not theft. We've had laws against theft of physical objects for thousands of years. I would agree on theft if I stole the CD on which the music was stored. Music, ideas and stories have not been a commodity for thousands of years, they have been freely available, and shared. It wasn't before we got the possibility of mass producing media like books, and somebody started making money on publishing, we got copyrights. The copyright is in my eyes not a tool made to protect the artist/composer, it is a tool mad to protect the publisher.
Isnt it about time somebody wrote some legaleese for an antipatent and started a repository for such antipatents.
The antipatent should prohibit the patenting of an antipatended idea, and everybody should be able to antipatent whatever idea they had.
Beat them with their own stick!
...I mean it...
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BLiP!