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[–] Wahaha 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

It's not worth money if no one is willing to pay money for it. You could be a doctor with the cure for cancer, but if you don't have anyone with cancer willing to pay you, it's not worth money. It's a really simple concept. If no one wants to spend money on it then it isn't worth the money.

Yes, people may want to use stuff if it's free. Doesn't mean they would pay you money if it wasn't free.

Nintendo is evil for keeping culture from the people. Their stuff is part of culture and they are depriving the people of that culture. It wouldn't even be an issue if copyright still only lasted 12 years, which is a fair compromise, imho. Same thing with the assholes who used to own the Happy Birthday song. They deprived people of their culture.

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[–] scandalous-goat 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Ok, we won't come to an agreement. I'll do, however, a bit more research on the copyright length: I'll admit that I didn't put much attention into it. I do want to add that reasons why I'm against piracy and for IP are:

* I want to get paid for what I do. Since it's all so intangible, people have a hard time giving the proper compensation for it: people understand that a device has a price, but they reject costs for a software that's as useful and complex if not more;

* Our culture relies way too much on corporate output. As time moves forward, the less cultures distinguish themselves: they become more and more homogenized. We barely create anything now, we consume.

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[–] Wahaha ago 

Who wouldn't want to get paid for what they do? It's just that you're still on a market place and just because you sell something, doesn't mean there's someone interested in buying. Someone being interested in using whatever you do for free doesn't change that. Piracy fundamentally doesn't change anything. People wouldn't go out and buy whatever if they couldn't pirate it. They just would do without it. And it's mostly not because they don't have the money to pay. It's just a simple service problem. But that wasn't what we were talking about. We were talking about how copyright gives companies the right to deprive people of their culture. It's not that we rely on corporate output for culture, it's that other forms are basically illegal. You want to take some of your culture and reshape it into something new? "Cease and desist", because that part of culture is owned by corporation X and they won't have it. The whole reason copyright was originally allowed was because it was only temporary, so that we wouldn't get deprived of our culture. But then copyright got extended and extended and extended and now it lasts basically forever. The movie Dracula from 1931 is still under copyright, even though everyone involved in making it is long dead.