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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>
  69
  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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