You can not make this shit up...

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

So given the option of
A) Continue to work under suboptimal conditions conducive to gigantic waste of resources and lack of innovation but keep a few rich men/companies who have maintained power not by talent but by a ridiculous legal system/haivng lots of lawyers
or
B) Rework the system so that it rewards developers instead of punishing them with admittedly job losses initially but over time a better industry

You would choose A?

That's a false dichotomy and you know it.

I pick option 243, where copyright law gets reformed, open source gets to stay as it is, and companies get to keep making money and supporting millions of workers.

Say what you will, but data sharing is depriving industries of money that they should be earning as compensation for work performed.


Edit:

Originally Posted by stefan

You know the funny thing about copyright law is, I agree it needs to be changed significantly so that people like textbook companies and parmaceutical companies and the like can't just fuck over everyone they want. However, so many of the people arguing for the removal of copyright law are, put bluntly, gigantic self-entitled douchebags who could care less about textbook scams and only want to get rid of copyright so they can pirate vidyagaems for free and not get penalized, and seem hell-bent on arguing that creative people do not deserve any sort of compensation for time and resources spent (cf. that one guy linked who was basically arguing how dare you feel like you deserve to be paid for taking time out of your life to create something)

so, I kind of get left in the position where I don't at all agree with copyright law as it is now, but reading arguments against it make me want to support it more because the people on "my side" seem so utterly deserving of a punch in the dick.

Pretty much where I stand right here.