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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[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind life either, but I kind of respect the idea that a creator might have a spouse, or a dependent who might otherwise have no income. It seems cruel, if someone is living off royalties and copyright payments, to yank that away.

Ten years is a good compromise, though.

Intellectual property should rest with the intellect that created it. Maybe when you get your law degree you can work it.