01-25-2012, 08:55 PM
in a word, bollocks; and now some more words...
they don't care that they removed millions of non copyrighted files that were freely shared. all they want is the money the lobbyist pay to the party funds. copyright laws need to be changed so the owner makes a decent profit for a decent amount of time. but not so long as to cause companies like the movie industries eg disney to dictate who watches or listens to what.
i bought a book of shakespeare's complete works years ago and guess what, it was fuckin copyrighted. the parts they added (the publishers) wasn't copyright, the whole fuckin book was copyrighted. many songs copyright the same riffs and even the same words. the brings a 71 year old song out and copyright it.
at present copyright is i think 70 years. thats way too long. i could go along with 70 years if there were a clause that said after 2 or 3 years after the 1st sale it can be freely shared in soft copy on the net. people would still buy the disc dvd or book while we could share it in forums etc. think how many 69 year old poems we are not supposed to share.
a proviso could be made to give proper creditation as we do when we show someone elses poem. sorry but i find what they do offensive to common decency. don't get me wrong, anyone who downloads something to sell that isn't theirs should get a criminal record. copyright laws need sorting out.
they don't care that they removed millions of non copyrighted files that were freely shared. all they want is the money the lobbyist pay to the party funds. copyright laws need to be changed so the owner makes a decent profit for a decent amount of time. but not so long as to cause companies like the movie industries eg disney to dictate who watches or listens to what.
i bought a book of shakespeare's complete works years ago and guess what, it was fuckin copyrighted. the parts they added (the publishers) wasn't copyright, the whole fuckin book was copyrighted. many songs copyright the same riffs and even the same words. the brings a 71 year old song out and copyright it.
at present copyright is i think 70 years. thats way too long. i could go along with 70 years if there were a clause that said after 2 or 3 years after the 1st sale it can be freely shared in soft copy on the net. people would still buy the disc dvd or book while we could share it in forums etc. think how many 69 year old poems we are not supposed to share.
a proviso could be made to give proper creditation as we do when we show someone elses poem. sorry but i find what they do offensive to common decency. don't get me wrong, anyone who downloads something to sell that isn't theirs should get a criminal record. copyright laws need sorting out.