In fact I have no vested interests. The only copyrights I hold are to work of mine, most of which I give away anyway, and that which I charge for, the copyright is long enough for me. I have no interest in starting a record company or publishing house. I have no friends or even aquaintances who are any of these things. For some reason, people seem to think you only think something is right or wrong depending on whether it gives you money or power or not. Perhaps for politicians, but not for my type. And I don't want to argue with someone who won't listen. If you don't believe in private property, I simply don't wish do discus anything with you. Intellectual property is property whether you like it or not, in the same way land or a house is private property. If you think otherwise, you don't realy belong in the united states.
That is like saying that society gives you "temporary momopoly" over your house. It's your house, you don't have a monopoly over it, you own it. Should you owe your house to a gangster because he let you keep it for awhile? Perhaps you owe anything to the public they haven't already taken, because they let you keep it a little while? Utter nonsense. People, for some reason, seem to think intellectul property is different. But it's not, it's property; hence the word property in the name. It might be different in places which are like the former soviet union, but that still doesn't make it right.
"The tax rate is incredibly high already, we are paying for every service we recieve and more."
We are already paying for the protection of copyright. That is one of the things our taxes go for. And regardless of that, what most people on here are advocating is taking away someone's rights. That is like saying "If you do not pay property taxes, anyone can come up and steal your house at any time."
There is no such social contract, that says the cd you buy should become public domain. You paid for a CD for the use of that CD based on the contract of sale. You have purchased one copy of that music, no more. It is insane to think someone "owes" you something like that. It's like saying "After this amoutn of time, you must give your chickens to me".
Piracy is not just the loss of profit. Piracy is taking something that does not belong to you, theft, clean and simple. Intellectual property rights aren't just about profits, they are about personal property. If someone creates something, they have the right to it, and they can sell the rights to anyone they want.
And you can't "take" something from the public domain, but letting a copyright holder keep it. It's not something the public has any rights to in the first place. I don't even bother to release much of what I create, because I have no interest in my creation being stolen.
So you are sugested something should have to pay taxes to be allowed to keep what they already own? Kindof like a protection racket? Give us money or we give away your property? The tax rate is incredibly high already, we are paying for every service we recieve and more. The idea we should have to pay even more to have some right protected is patentedly absurd. Why not specificaly tax the protection of potatos? Or rutabagas? Maybe we should tax computer ownership?
You're making the assumption that you actually own something which the government is taking away. There is no property being taken. The constitution protects people's property rights, doesn't give them away, and the copyright is a property right someone else holds, not you.
The key to remember about the broadcast flag is that it is an attempt to make a law to force manufacturers of equipment to put something in their equipment that they do not want, nor do their customers. And when they threaten to not show any good movies or shows on television, they have to remember that we simply won't watch television, and won't see their comercials, and their advertisers won't be so interested any more. They have the right to do what they want with their content, it is their property, but they do not have the right to get laws passed to force other people to do things with their property the do not want, and they should remember people actually watching are what pay their salaries.
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In fact I have no vested interests. The only copyrights I hold are to work of mine, most of which I give away anyway, and that which I charge for, the copyright is long enough for me. I have no interest in starting a record company or publishing house. I have no friends or even aquaintances who are any of these things. For some reason, people seem to think you only think something is right or wrong depending on whether it gives you money or power or not. Perhaps for politicians, but not for my type. And I don't want to argue with someone who won't listen. If you don't believe in private property, I simply don't wish do discus anything with you. Intellectual property is property whether you like it or not, in the same way land or a house is private property. If you think otherwise, you don't realy belong in the united states.
That is like saying that society gives you "temporary momopoly" over your house. It's your house, you don't have a monopoly over it, you own it. Should you owe your house to a gangster because he let you keep it for awhile? Perhaps you owe anything to the public they haven't already taken, because they let you keep it a little while? Utter nonsense. People, for some reason, seem to think intellectul property is different. But it's not, it's property; hence the word property in the name. It might be different in places which are like the former soviet union, but that still doesn't make it right.
"The tax rate is incredibly high already, we are paying for every service we recieve and more." We are already paying for the protection of copyright. That is one of the things our taxes go for. And regardless of that, what most people on here are advocating is taking away someone's rights. That is like saying "If you do not pay property taxes, anyone can come up and steal your house at any time."
There is no such social contract, that says the cd you buy should become public domain. You paid for a CD for the use of that CD based on the contract of sale. You have purchased one copy of that music, no more. It is insane to think someone "owes" you something like that. It's like saying "After this amoutn of time, you must give your chickens to me".
Piracy is not just the loss of profit. Piracy is taking something that does not belong to you, theft, clean and simple. Intellectual property rights aren't just about profits, they are about personal property. If someone creates something, they have the right to it, and they can sell the rights to anyone they want. And you can't "take" something from the public domain, but letting a copyright holder keep it. It's not something the public has any rights to in the first place. I don't even bother to release much of what I create, because I have no interest in my creation being stolen.
*laughs*
Okay, we may have no desire to watch any more anyway!
But still!
So you are sugested something should have to pay taxes to be allowed to keep what they already own? Kindof like a protection racket? Give us money or we give away your property? The tax rate is incredibly high already, we are paying for every service we recieve and more. The idea we should have to pay even more to have some right protected is patentedly absurd. Why not specificaly tax the protection of potatos? Or rutabagas? Maybe we should tax computer ownership?
You're making the assumption that you actually own something which the government is taking away. There is no property being taken. The constitution protects people's property rights, doesn't give them away, and the copyright is a property right someone else holds, not you.
The key to remember about the broadcast flag is that it is an attempt to make a law to force manufacturers of equipment to put something in their equipment that they do not want, nor do their customers.
And when they threaten to not show any good movies or shows on television, they have to remember that we simply won't watch television, and won't see their comercials, and their advertisers won't be so interested any more.
They have the right to do what they want with their content, it is their property, but they do not have the right to get laws passed to force other people to do things with their property the do not want, and they should remember people actually watching are what pay their salaries.