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In years to come, someone will be able to take a picture of your car, put it into a machine and the machine build it, that's not silly, it's becoming fact, day by day.
So, WTH use or logic is there in our current ideas of copyright, in those situations?

I've said this before, but think it through..
Star Trek replicators were sci-fi, so were "communicators"...note today's mobile phones...that's in just 40 years it's went from sci-fi foolish folk scoffed at or thought would take a century or more, to every day fact.

Look at 3d rapid prototyping and printing, and nano-technology.
I can send a 3d model from Rhino, to a company in the USA, or here, and get it turned into a plastic replica.

So, 100, 200 or whatever  years from now, you don't buy goods, you buy "plans". You download 'em, put 'em in your "replicator", and it makes your TV or whatever, cuts out the middle man, all you need to store are raw materials.

If we allow today's insanity (that is, corporations bending the law to make them more profit), what you buy will have a EULA. You won't own anything, you'll just have a EULA allowing you to use their property. You, a Human Being, won't own anything. Corporations will own everything.

That is incredibly dangerous, as well as being stupid as it's contrary to common sense.

Would you copyright the image someone has of your work in their head? Think about that one for a bit...what's a brain? A data storage unit. So, everyone who has seen one of your pics is illegally holding copies of it....

if that's illegal, if that's "sane", I'm the brother of a tailed-ape's father :D

Also, we're all in danger, every day every minute...heart attacks, robbery, meteors...so what? If you live your life in fear, you're dead already. You lost!

Sure, stop folk making money off your hard work is perfectly just, but they do it already ANYWAY, on a massive scale, just go check the scams in government and business, jeesh.

brilliant example of this, in connection with copyright, are some of the record companies, the prices they charged for CDs, and the amount they actually paid artists, and refusing to invest in the business while giving themselves massive perks and lifestyles high on the hog...yet dare to complain about lost revenue, take folk to court for MP3 file sharing, as their business nose dives because the market has changed and they alienate their own customers etc, haha...classic hypocrisy and "cutting your own nose off to spite your face".

Enjoying art is much more profitable, than worrying about some thieving scumbags who haven't actually broken into your house or harmed your family: THAT'S a totally different scenario and one worth getting upset about. 

Enjoy life! You've only got one shot at it, best make the most of it. It's not what OTHER folk do, it's what YOU do with it, that's important.
Hm? :)

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