Rottenham posted at 2:26 PM Sat, 12 October 2024 - #4490230

SydneyInPeril posted at 11:32 AM Sat, 12 October 2024 - #4490226

About the only prep I can effectively do for the future, is make sure that I have full unadulterated control over my own hardware that I've paid for, wherever I can do so, and that does mean stepping away from just about all commercial software offerings involving it. There is no such thing as a "perpetual" software license, at best it only effectively lasts as long as you have a computer that can run the software.

Legality will always be connected to money. Look at Disney, getting copyright extended to 70 years. Most younger people today have never seen any of the films I grew up on, never heard of any of the great actors and actresses. The purpose of copyright law was to protect the artists. Now it's used to make them disappear.

About copyright, the Chinese say "How can I steal it if there isn't anything missing?" Any good idea can look ridiculous when taken to an extreme. Al Gore passed a law in 1996, the DMCA, that says anything we post on a website becomes the PROPERTY of that website. What was he thinking.

I've tried to read about these laws, but every other word is Maybe and Sometimes and Possibly.

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When the Music Industry turned against the music video, Popular Music as we knew it devolved into cursing and shouting. Today, rentware is having a negative effect on our definition of Art.

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Theft of digital product is not about something "missing" but rather the right to copy/duplicate it.

That is the difference.

You arent "taking the item away" but you are "copying it" without permission.

I think as digital artists we have ran across that from time to time. Finding our work earning someone else money without us getting a red cent!

The current IP laws are to protect artists from having their work "copied" without consent. And depending on the country they can be good laws or bad...

I know I have and its why I really dont like pirating....

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