Posted by justafingerpicker on 11/13/05 16:59

Just an observation (by an admitted old f@rt, at that) but this whole
thing about copyright infringement is a whole lot like arguing over who
gets to sit in the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Copyright laws were not written with any thought of the electronic age.
I don't think anyone (certainly, anyone who's published anything -- or
tried) would argue with the concept of the right to profit from
"intellectual property." But changes in music distribution has, by
itself, rendered the laws governing the protection of one's creative
efforts hopelessly archaic.

I understand -- even support -- the right of people to profit from
their own work, or at the very least, prevent others from profiting
from it at the creator's expense. But there's got to be a better way
to do that than trying to repaint a Model-T Ford and make it more
suitable for the Indy 500.

The genie is out of the bottle. That is the fact that has to be dealt
with -- not merely how to attempt to stuff him back into it.

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