Originally posted by cool skill
These industries have tons of money. Enough to feed the world. They’ll be fine.
Furthermore, they don’t have no way at all to make money. They can always make money.
Further still, even if they couldn’t make money, there are much more important things in this world than the greedy industries that the IP laws support.
Big industries need an income too, they aren't the immortal tightens that you seem to want to think that they are. They are not "Greedy industries" (well ok the greed of individual industries is arguable, the recording industry for instance bends it's artists over and rapes them up the ass without any lube, but that's an issue between the musicians and the company not between you and I), these are the industries that produce the things you love!
Without IP laws, a movie studio would sink hundreds of millions of dollars into a film, then they'd try to release it, and immediately any two bit thief with a DVD burner would be making copies which they could sell for all of about 99 cents each and still make a profit because blank CDs are cheap and plentiful, whereas the studio would have to charge quite a lot of money for the film in order to recoup the loss of those hundreds of millions of dollars that was used to make the film in the first place. Under this model the studio would probably not make much money at all, would bring in no where near enough to cover their expenses in the first place. Because there would be no Intellectual Property laws protecting their ownership of the content of that film they'd have no legal recourse to take against the opportunistic scavenging pirates and would be left with either the choice of simply disbanding all together or continuing to produce movies with money that they don't have until they all end up in debtor’s prison. Once that happens the scavenging movie pirates haven't got anything to steal, so they stop making money, too, and there would simply cease to be a movie industry all together. That's what happens when you punish the productive and reward the thieves, and that's all removing intellectual property laws can bring us.
Originally posted by cool skill
It’s an idea.
Just because you came up with the idea does not mean you can own it.
Therefore you have no right to keep others from using it however they want.
It’s an idea. It’s not a bicycle. It does not belong to you.
Well I'm just glad that the rest of rational society disagrees with you. I for one love music, video games, movies, and books, and would hate to see these things all but vanish from our culture. Also, as an aspiring artist who hopes to start selling his work, I'm glad that I have that option, and am alowed to make a proffit off of those things which I create.
Originally posted by cool skill
You cannot steal an idea.
If I take your bike, you loose possession of it.
I cannot take your idea because weather I use it or not, you still never loose possession of it.
If you steal my idea then there are certainly damages which can be incurred, that's why copyright violations are good grounds for suing. If you steal my idea and distribute it you've denied me all of the profit that should have been mine, and you've denied me the right to use my property how I want, and to restrict it's use. It's like taking my proverbial bicycle while I'm asleep and not using it, and riding it around the block only to bring it back with flat tires and scratched paint.
Originally posted by cool skill
People don’t have to disclose if they don’t want to.
People do not have the right to force you to disclose.
In the same sense, if you do disclose, you have no right to force others not to use what you have disclosed.
Well policy wise, in a world without intellectual property laws forced disclosure makes a lot of sense. If you're supposed to believe that your ideas don't belong to you then it's wrong to hold them back from others and you should be obligated to give them up. But in a more practical sense, yes it would be easy for an individual to simply deny that he has anything to give, and that's just what would happen. We'd have much less painters paintings, composers composing, and photographers photographing. Things which are protected by copyrights, trademarks and patents today simply wouldn't happen anymore. Congratulations on creating a world without culture, science or innovation.
Originally posted by cool skill
That is not how society makes advancement. It’s part of the reason society is getting nowhere fast.
If you think society and culture are going nowhere, perhaps it's time to crawl out of your cave and bask in the awe of modern culture. There's a lot of really ugly and just flat out stupid ideas out there right now, but take a look at the advancements, and beauty we have created just in the last 50 years, it's really a very interesting and exciting world.
Originally posted by cool skill
More freedom to write and sell whatever you want, and less limitations means more writing and creative works.
I couldn't agree more, but getting rid of Intellectual Property laws would only serve to destroy this ideal. Without Intellectual properties you can write whatever you like, but you sure as hell can't sell it, because someone else will steal it and do that for you. You'll make no money and get no recognition for your work, and guess what, you're going to learn that writing doesn't pay off, and you're going to stop, or if you happen to have a particular passion for it, you're going to continue writing but not going to share your work with anyone because you don't want to get screwed over like before.
Your entire opinion on this subject is horribly flawed.