I want to live in your dystopia, man:

[skywaterblue]

Man writes scaremongering post about how life without copyright would SUCK.

I wrote this big fucking essay/rant about how dumb this is, but I probably won't have internet access to fight people online who are wrong. Suffice to say: people don't buy shit because it's copyrighted. If they did, every fucking computer in the universe would run Linux and Firefox and no one would remember what Microsoft did because Steve Jobs would be some unknown coder in Palo Alta.

They buy/read/consume because it's aspirational to do so.

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[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

In the brave new world of no copyright, I could write Trek with Donald Duck as the main character fighting Sherlock Holmes and no one could stop me as long as I put the little trademark symbols beside the names.
1. The problem with that is...? I'd like to see someone discuss copyright without immediately falling back on OH GOD NOES FANFIC.
2. Sherlock Holmes is public domain, you idiot.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Part of my rant I deleted was that his world of nothing but the BBC, shitty youtube videos, old books and fanfic probably describes 9/10ths of where I get my entertainment.