OK, I didn't know we were having a serious discussion... You just came off and lambasted anyone who thought that there should be some protection for artistic works, and I was replying to that. I can handle the skittles post...
It was the namecalling regarding copyright that got on my nerves. No hard feelings, Dude....
/* sKiTz turns off piss mode */
OK so here's my SERIOUS reply.
My first foray into content was about four years ago. Bruce Zell answered an ad that I posted looking for photographers who needed help developing CD masters.
I flew down to Ft. Lauderdale (I lived in Queens at the time) and spend a marathon five days with Bruce digitizing and color correcting images, putting them on a CD, and developing a website to sell them from.
Should I have not gotten paid for that?
Should Bruce not be paid for HIS work producing the CDs? (every shoot took him a bare minimum of six hours or more)
If everything were free like you desire, why would anyone produce intellectual works?
Writers would not write any more, because all their stuff would be given away free, and the MONTHS of work that goes into novel production would not be worth it.
No TV shows, because producers wouldn't be able to make a living doing it.
No professional photography, because photographers would have no motivation to take pictures.
You get the drift.....
In Cuba, a doctor only makes slightly more than a janitor. You think that people are lining up to attend medical school in Cuba? What benefit is there to going to school for eight years, if you get paid basically the same as someone who doesn't go to school at all?
I think you're aspiration is noble, but not possible in a capitalistic society.