When you create something, aren't you proud of your work when you spend a lot of time and energy creating it? How about that social studies report you finally finished, that poem for your Mom that made her smile, that cool logo you came up with for your soccer team, the great song you wrote for the school play, or even your journal that you don't "have" to do but you enjoy it so much and it's special to you? Well, all these are your creations and you'd probably be pretty upset if someone just copied any of them without your permission. That's where copyright comes in. Copyright law gives you a set of rights that prevents other people from copying your work and doing other things with your work that you may not like.
As the creator of your work, you should have the right to control what people can and cannot do with your work. In the United States - one of the world's biggest sources of creative works like movies, television shows, books, computer games, etc. -- this right to control your work has actually turned into big business, but that's what allows all the creative people around us to get paid for coming up with all the wonderful songs, shows, books, painting, movies and other great works that we enjoy. Just think of all the cool songs your favorite band wrote, the great books you loved reading, the plays, movies and television shows you love to watch again and again. These talented musicians, authors, illustrators and screenwriters deserve our respect and appreciation - and they deserve to make a living from the hard work they put into their creative works -- otherwise most of them wouldn't be able to produce as many (or any) of the songs, books, plays, movies and TV shows that you like. That's what copyright is all about. It reflects our appreciation for all the hard work that goes into creating "original works of authorship" and respect for the right of the creator of that work to control what people can and cannot do with it.
Funny how the people who push copyright and use the argument "you shouldn't use/see/look at these these things unless you have our permission!" are the same ones that push for incredibly intrusive software that takes away all privacy and basically leaves you with no rights to even your own thoughts.
There is no such thing as copyright or intellectual property. Once something is shared, it no longer belongs to you.
>>7 Well you called him a stupid atheist out of nowhere. Do you have pro-god arguments? Share them with us please. (but mind the license of your argument!)
>>7 Why don't you go back there? Or have they already kicked you out for being too big a retard?
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Anonymous2014-06-08 7:48
>>9 Are you saying /prog/ contains more retarded denizens than 4chan, in which case does that make you as retarded as you perceive the person you are replying to to be?
In the United States - one of the world's biggest sources of creative works like movies, television shows, books, computer games
The United Stated of America has several trillion dollars of debt. Once it cuts that down to at most several billion, I might start caring about paying ofr creative works made in the United States.
Most of that debt America owes itself, because debts is a side product of how American economy works.
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Anonymous2014-06-08 10:11
>>12 Nope. The American economy works by the FRS turning paper into money, and the American government loaning that "money" (without EVER being able to repay the debt, of course). Then this "money" is exchanged for real goods abroad, and the whole world believes that this green-colored paper called "dollars" is actually money. But in order for "dollars" to become money and not toilet paper that the printers in FRS printed American presidents on, the American government needs to repay its debts to the FRS.
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Anonymous2014-06-08 10:13
If I print "this is a million dollars" on a piece of paper, the American government won't loan this piece of paper from me, thus it will not become money. However, when the FRS does the same thing, the US government gladly accepts it. So the US government owes me the millions of dollars that I could have printed but it would never accept.
At any rate, any government with trillions of dollars of debt is obviously untrustworthy, as is its currency, thus converting my money into that currency would be dangerous. Do American creative intellectuals accept currencies other than the "US dollar"?
If people are happy to exchange goods for paper, then it is their right. It has nothing to do with American internal debt.
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Anonymous2014-06-08 11:48
>>1 Creators of work should be compensated, but the enforcement of copyright leads to drm. drm is fundamentally at odds with your right to privacy. It is a security risk. Hackers will find ways to get the same access to your device that the record companies will have. drm is crippling of technology. My right to privacy, security, and to devices that treat me as the actual owner outweigh some millionaire's desire for more money and the complaints of some two bit musician about his work being on youtube. There are more important things in the world that deserve concern.
Copyrights only lead to media companies gulping most of the profits. Paying for content should be optional and directed entirely to the creators of the content. In a world where everything can be copied easily there is no other way. Record and media companies will die off and the true creative people will have more money than ever.
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Anonymous2014-06-08 12:18
Kick back watch it crumble See the drowning, watch the fall I feel just terrible about it That's sarcasm, let it burn
I'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart Then someone shouts "That's what they get!"
For all the years of hit and run For all the piss broke bands on VH1 Where did all, their money go? Don't we all know
Parasitic music industry As it destroys itself We'll show them how it's supposed to be
Music written from devotion Not ambition, not for fame Zero people are exploited There are no tricks, up our sleeve
Gonna fight against the mass appeal We're gonna kill the 7 record deal Make records that have more than one good song The dinosaurs will slowly die And I do believe no one will cry I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be There to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry Three feet in la brea tar Extinction never felt so good
If you think anyone would feel badly You are sadly, mistaken The time has come for evolution Fuck collusion, kill the five
Whatever happened to the handshake? Whatever happened to deals no-one would break? What happened to integrity? It's still there it always was For playing music just because A million reasons why
(All) dinosaurs will die (All) dinosaurs will die (All) dinosaurs will die