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Old 04-23-2011, 11:32 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
so if we increase the monopoly control of copyright laws we will have competition


http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyrigh...rights-110320/

stop trying to defend a limitation of property rights as a property right.
When I can come into your work place and steal your work for my profit I will take seriously what you say. Until then you're a hypocrite.

If I create something with my own skills resources and money, be it a picture, clay model, computer program or building. I own it.

If I build a house with my own bought bricks, cement, and labor, I own it. You don't. You can't live in it, rent it out or take it from me without my permission.

I create pictures and videos with my own money, skills and equipment. So why do you think you have the right to take it from me?

Can I take what you create from you?

Copyright is the enforcement of property rights. Just like the law on theft is the enforcement on my rights to keep what I own.

Without enforcement of copyright laws you wouldn't have a computer to work on. Because who would bother to invent anything or write a program if the moment it's made someone can steal it and copy it over and over again?
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