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Originally Posted by kane
Most copyright holders don't give a fuck about your freedoms. They want your money and they want it in any way they can get it. Those with the money make the rules and so long as that is the case there will never be an amendment like you want. You are living in dream land. No company is going to put themselves at risk like that. They don't see it a tyranny, they see it as protecting their product.
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When people start to research the possibility of developing a new product. They have to calculate it's sales and profit potential.
If that sales and profit potential is reduced by copyright violation. They are hindered and spend less. Everything GG is using to type his babble on this board went through this process. If the piracy had a bad effect on R & D. He wouldn't have a computer which can do what it does, wouldn't have programs that let him do what he does.
Copyright is good. It means a drugs company can spend millions on R & D for a drug, same with computers, cars, airplanes and even biscuits in the supermarket.
Imagine a world where GG gets his way and there's no such thing as copyright. Or is he saying it's only for online?
So if I have the formula for a new cancer drug that cost 10s of millions to R & D. I can share it on the Internet?
No the pirated philosophy is simple. Others can pay so I can get it for free. The last thing he wants is to have what he campaigns for. It would mean much fewer would bother to produce new things.