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Dear MPAA -- Sorry, it's over. - 1/19/2012 6:46:01 PM

farglebargle

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Dear MPAA,

I understand you've done very well out of the current system where The People provide special laws which subsidize your business.

However, those laws were intended to "Promote the progress of science and the useful arts".

And you've been abusing the hell out of them. First it's the 1998 Copyright Extension Act which pretty much killed the "Public Domain", and now we have to deal with your RETROACTIVE removal of stuff from the Public Domain.

I'm sorry. I've given up. It just didn't work out.

BUT!

Since you claim to be such good capitalists, you should have no problem competing in an open, free market without any artificial limits to entry. The more capitalists, the freer the markets.

Best of luck.

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RE: Dear MPAA -- Sorry, it's over. - 1/19/2012 6:53:20 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: farglebargle

Dear MPAA,

I understand you've done very well out of the current system where The People provide special laws which subsidize your business.

However, those laws were intended to "Promote the progress of science and the useful arts".

And you've been abusing the hell out of them. First it's the 1998 Copyright Extension Act which pretty much killed the "Public Domain", and now we have to deal with your RETROACTIVE removal of stuff from the Public Domain.

I'm sorry. I've given up. It just didn't work out.

BUT!

Since you claim to be such good capitalists, you should have no problem competing in an open, free market without any artificial limits to entry. The more capitalists, the freer the markets.

Best of luck.

Ah,....the dreaded "private sector!" Washington doesn't like it when you bandi that word around!

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RE: Dear MPAA -- Sorry, it's over. - 1/19/2012 7:42:42 PM

Rule

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Copyright always has been a monopoly ploy. It definitely never was in the interest of the artists/authors but in that of the publishers who enslaved them, bought their soul by buying exclusive rights to sell physical objects tainted with their work. It served to keep prices high and to prohibit competition.

Abolish copyright.
There is a better law feasible that does stimulate creativity: Anyone selling a physical product tainted by information, whether book, film, gramophone disk or whatever, must yield no less than x per cent of the profit on said physical product to the person whose labor produced said information. Politics can debate what quantity that x will be, but let us suppose that it is 92. Then:

Entrepreneur A may sell a thousand copies of said physical product and makes a profit of one dollar each and then pays the author at least 920 dollars. Entrepreneur A has earned 80 dollars for himself.
Entrepreneur B sells two thousand copies and makes a profit on each of fifty cents and also pays the author at least 920 dollars.
Entrepreneur C sells ten copies and makes a profit on each of forty dollars and pays the author at least 368 dollars.
Entrepreneur D sells one copy and makes a profit of one hundred dollars and pays the author at least ninety-two dollars.
Entrepreneur E sells one million copies, but makes no profit at all. He pays the author at least 92 per cent of zero profit and thus a total of zero dollars.

< Message edited by Rule -- 1/19/2012 7:46:39 PM >

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