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[SubZero]

Is Copying Wrong? - Copy-me
http://youtu.be/U2m3GBIWGCY

[cakemafia]

Doing that would be like preaching to the converted..

[joew771]

That vid is shit. Digital is infinite and you can't own something that's infinite, it says. lol. A ridiculous statement to begin with, but lets imagine...

I own my own body, and my mind, and my imagination is infinite. As Han Solo said, "I can imagine quite a bit". So I own something infinite already. Maybe not. But the statement is still silly.

If I use my imagination to create something that no one else has ever thought of, a song, a book, a better mousetrap, I should own that, since it came from me, the concept, the planning, the work to create it, and I should be able to use that work to create money for myself, just like everyone else does when they work. If one of you created the next big computer program, working for months, even years on it and then tried to sell it, but found out you couldn't because people were giving it away for free, why even start it in the first place? I know that is a little extreme, because people creating software are still making money, but use that infinite imagination again....if everyone in the world knew how to use tpb and kat etc. and torrent software, virtually no one would ever pay for anything that can be transmitted via computers. Humans are criminals at heart. The only reason the companies are still making money is because there are still people ignorant enough out there to not know how to steal it. And if no one payed for anything, no one would make anything to sell, what's the point?

But that was just in our imagination, and how things work in the real world is different maybe.

And digital copies of things aren't infinite anyway. Unless you have infinite storage space, which we don't.

[tuffgong]

Hold on, let me finish my joint.....

OK. So how bout we don't have to pay for anything at all? How bout we create things because we want to and not because we'll get paid. Did Carlos start playing guitar because of the money? He wanted to speak with an instrument (and get laid). Did Van Gough do it for the money?

Our planet will continue to spin around the drain until enough of us realize to pull our heads out of our asses and stop worrying about meaningless crap.

[joew771]

Hold on, let me finish my joint.....

OK. So how bout we don't have to pay for anything at all? How bout we create things because we want to and not because we'll get paid. Did Carlos start playing guitar because of the money? He wanted to speak with an instrument (and get laid). Did Van Gough do it for the money?

Our planet will continue to spin around the drain until enough of us realize to pull our heads out of our asses and stop worrying about meaningless crap.

If no one pays for anything ever, some things will still be created, but for the most part, they won't. Some people will have a burning passion to create and share what they created, but most people won't. Not a single blockbuster movie would ever be made (which may not be a bad thing). A large budget anything would never be made. A car, a new energy source, the cure for cancer. Anything that requires a great deal of money and cooperation.

You will get some paintings from crazy people, like Van Gogh, but so what? If you look at his paintings objectively they aren't that great anyhow imho.

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^ $40 million for that? please.

[System Folder]

If nobody paid for anything, only the people who wanted to do something would do something. Sure, not everyone would be the best at what they wanted to do, but many of them would; and those who got good could teach anyone who wanted to learn.

[tuffgong]

Maybe just hit ctrl+ alt+del on the whole mess then Joe..... at the rate we're going it'll save some time.

[joew771]

If nobody paid for anything, only the people who wanted to do something would do something. Sure, not everyone would be the best at what they wanted to do, but many of them would; and those who got good could teach anyone who wanted to learn.

An idealistically romantic view of reality. If only that were true, but I fear it isn't.

Where does the food come from to feed the world? You can't believe that thousands of farmers would just work all day to feed everyone else for free, do you? Or a contractor would build you a house just for fun? Or that someone would design Halo 6 for the hell of it? That's nonsense.

People need to be paid for what they contribute to the world. Or else we all suffer.

Copying things on the computer isn't any different. Just because you can't torrent a taco doesn't mean that you should torrent a song. If someone doesn't pay for those things, they will stop being produced for the most part, and I like tacos and songs.

But if you can steal something, whether it's a song or a taco or a car, do it! fuck them.

[tuffgong]

What motivates us has gone to shit. How we treat each other has gone to shit. That we would even want Halo 6 is the issue. That is the problem.

[Picklock]

I paid for things I want to paid for
seriously why I want to pay for some videos footage of blonde chick riding a black cock?
but I'll pay to let the blonde chick rides mine