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| | 18 | <h1>The Weak Must Die</h1> |
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| | 22 | <a href="#sec1">Misc</a> |
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| | 27 | <a href="#sec2">Copyright Is Bad for Society</a> |
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| | 36 | <p>Intermediate forms of thought which have been refined.</p> |
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| | 39 | Misc</h2> |
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| | 42 | Copyright Is Bad for Society</h3> |
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| | 44 | <p class="first">Copyright is a tool used to placate publishers who feel that they will |
| | 45 | make no money if things can be freely copied. Publishers, however, |
| | 46 | contribute <strong>nothing</strong> of worth to our culture; they are mere middlemen |
| | 47 | who print the creative work of others, and so their pleas should be |
| | 48 | ignored.</p> |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | <p>A short copyright term is acceptable, and worked in most of the world |
| | 51 | for a few hundred years. As it stands now we have perpetual copyrights |
| | 52 | (as in the Old World), and the cultural stagnation that affected |
| | 53 | Europe then is now occurring today in most of the world. There are |
| | 54 | many books published between 1917 and a few years ago that I would |
| | 55 | love to read, but am unable to because they have not been printed (for |
| | 56 | older books often in as long as 40 or 50 years). The albums of a few |
| | 57 | bands I like are out of print now and I will be long dead before I get |
| | 58 | a chance to purchase them (<em>if</em> copyright is not extended again, which |
| | 59 | experience tells me will happen soon) because the record labels have |
| | 60 | no interest in returning the masters to the band!</p> |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | <p>What point is there to allowing copyright to exist on works which are |
| | 63 | not being published? If their terms had expired there is a chance that |
| | 64 | they would be being published by public domain publishing houses who |
| | 65 | subsist on smaller margins. This would <a href="http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=482">create real economic value</a>, and |
| | 66 | more importantly great <strong>social</strong> value. Allowing art to rot is a |
| | 67 | disrespect to human creativity and an immeasurable loss for all future |
| | 68 | humans.</p> |
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| | 70 | <p>I predict that in two or three hundred years there will be nearly no |
| | 71 | record of any literature or art produced in the twentieth century. As |
| | 72 | it stands today we have lost most of it with the exception of a few |
| | 73 | trashy works which have become popular to the masses.</p> |
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| | 103 | <p class="cke-footer">clinton: last time I was a bit weak (*sniff* level four and only 18 hp) |
| | 104 | clinton: I had a -1 intelligence modifier for the first three weeks |
| | 105 | emacsen: what about your character? |
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