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]

Publishers apparently don't make any money now! And you're right of course. The real reason copyright doesn't do what he says is because it's easier for most Americans to go to Wal-Mart and buy Star Trek on DVD than to sit around and fiddle with downloads and burning and codecs.