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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[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Two, they're too fucking long, no one needs their kids to get fat off the rights to granddaddy's work. Shorten that to like, life of the author + 25 and if after it's done, Timmy doesn't have a real job, that's tough shit.

This, thank you.

Warren Ellis and I went 'round on this once and I mentioned that my dad's name is on the patents for several technologies for things that are now common video technologies but that because cause he created them while a Civil Servant, he had to sign the rights over to the US Government.

WE responded that didn't I wish I had some of that money now.

I responded that I wasn't raised to be a sponge off of my father's achievements but to make my own way in the world.

WE replied that the next time I said something like that I was asking for a banning.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Almost all the REALLY acrimonious conversations I've ever had with people on copyright law have been people who make comics.

I find this ironic, and really ignorant as fuck.