So you won't have a problem when your employer starts checking on how much you sleep or don't because it "may" affect your health and production.
And you won't mind when they start checking your grocery purchases, to make sure your eating the "right" foods, because it "could" have a negative effect on on your health and production.
Oh and let us not forget alcohol..., oh yea and that wife of yours, well sorry, she just doesn't fit the company profile, we'll select a new one for you, after all we have to keep productivity up.
Congradulations! You are now owned lock, stock and barrel, 24/7, for a few dollars. say baaaah.
Distributing someone elses copyright work is not the same thing as distributing a critique of someone elses work.
This is more like, I buy a lock for my house, the salesman says it's undefeatable. I take it apart and find out that's not true. I tell my friends they shouldn't use this lock because it doesn't live up to it's claims. I goto jail for IP crimes because I exposed a fraud.
"Adding the levy to the actual sales of the original material is what is actually most fair."
This makes perfect sense to me, but why would they(V* W*rt/**AA/etc.) want to risk losing business by raising prices in their own market when they can use the legal system to push that burden off onto someone elses market.
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Perhaps it's because they'd be unecessary if that actually happened.
Perhaps if you had been able to keep your money and use/invest it wisely, you then would not have to turn around and beg for and get pitiful amounts of help from the people who took it from you in the first place.
I'm not really opposed to that type of pool, as long as it's by the people(all) for the people(all), for food, clothing, shelter and medical, only. This is merely by the government for the entertainment industry. Entertainment is not a basic necessity and I should not be required to supply it for others.
I don't believe this money will ever go into any pool that will in any way help anyone outside the industry now or in the future. It's just government enforced extortion.
This is an industry I have personally chosen to not support and I resent it when the government forces me to. I don't dl(or buy) movies or music and I don't make them available to others either.
All a tax like this does is allow a lazy assed industry that's full of itself to collect money it never earned, from people who have nothing to do with them, thus elevating the corporation to near government status, or better, since they are not responsible to those from which they take.
I'd be more in favor of taxing the **AAs and their ilk and sending the money to poor ISPs whose networks are being bogged down by all this crap. We could call it a "Free advertising/distribution tax, er I mean levy" or such. I wonder if the entertainment industry would consider THAT to be fair.
ps: I am, neither young, nor stupid, and smart enough to know that age does not necessarily imply intelligence or wisdom.
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So you won't have a problem when your employer starts checking on how much you sleep or don't because it "may" affect your health and production. And you won't mind when they start checking your grocery purchases, to make sure your eating the "right" foods, because it "could" have a negative effect on on your health and production. Oh and let us not forget alcohol..., oh yea and that wife of yours, well sorry, she just doesn't fit the company profile, we'll select a new one for you, after all we have to keep productivity up. Congradulations! You are now owned lock, stock and barrel, 24/7, for a few dollars. say baaaah.
Why only for the elderly? Why not for all drivers. Sounds discriminatory to me.
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Distributing someone elses copyright work is not the same thing as distributing a critique of someone elses work. This is more like, I buy a lock for my house, the salesman says it's undefeatable. I take it apart and find out that's not true. I tell my friends they shouldn't use this lock because it doesn't live up to it's claims. I goto jail for IP crimes because I exposed a fraud.
This makes perfect sense to me, but why would they(V* W*rt/**AA/etc.) want to risk losing business by raising prices in their own market when they can use the legal system to push that burden off onto someone elses market.
or
Perhaps it's because they'd be unecessary if that actually happened.
I'm not really opposed to that type of pool, as long as it's by the people(all) for the people(all), for food, clothing, shelter and medical, only. This is merely by the government for the entertainment industry. Entertainment is not a basic necessity and I should not be required to supply it for others.
I don't believe this money will ever go into any pool that will in any way help anyone outside the industry now or in the future. It's just government enforced extortion. This is an industry I have personally chosen to not support and I resent it when the government forces me to. I don't dl(or buy) movies or music and I don't make them available to others either.
All a tax like this does is allow a lazy assed industry that's full of itself to collect money it never earned, from people who have nothing to do with them, thus elevating the corporation to near government status, or better, since they are not responsible to those from which they take.
I'd be more in favor of taxing the **AAs and their ilk and sending the money to poor ISPs whose networks are being bogged down by all this crap. We could call it a "Free advertising/distribution tax, er I mean levy" or such. I wonder if the entertainment industry would consider THAT to be fair.
ps: I am, neither young, nor stupid, and smart enough to know that age does not necessarily imply intelligence or wisdom.
Don't they just exclude themselves from from any laws they pass that might be personally annoying?