On 11/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've heard the arguments for abolishing copyright and they are very good.
I want to debate this so tell me why you think this is wrong and I'll
listen...
A good place to start a debate is with your own opinions! Let's hear 'em.
As for me, I'm generally anti-IP, but specifically I can't find
anything egregiously wrong with copyright. If I produce a creative
work, put blood sweat and tears into it, why should somebody profit
from redistributing it without an obligation to pay me for my original
work?
Patents, yes. "Copyright", well.... yes. But I'm not worried about it.
The precariousness of an anarcho-capitalist view, such as I myself
hold, is that there are some good things that the government promotes.
The challenge is to identify those things, to not blast them
unconditionally, and to say, "I agree with the concept, but I don't
think it takes government to perpetuate it.". I think that it's only
proper and self-interested to to respect the creator of an original,
productive, useful, interesting work. I don't think it's proper to
maintain a government use of force to do so.
Does this mean that creators sometimes don't get what they are due? Yes.
-todd
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