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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[pauraque]

Only skimmed it, but:

Places like I-Tunes would go out of business fairly quickly since if you can get something fee, why buy it?

What planet does this fella live on? o_O

[skywaterblue]

... not any reality I know, clearly. Let's start with bottled water and then work our way to iTunes, y'know?