| All I know is that this computer I use is mine. I worked for the money to buy it, and sometimes people pay me to write things with it. I use that money to get things I ordinarily couldn't build or grow. I don't know crap about Communism but I know if I exchange my time and effort for money and use that to buy a computer and occasionally make a buck with it to provide me with things I need. I own the money I worked for (after taxes) and I own the computer I bought with it, and everything I write on it belongs to me unless I say otherwise. If that's capitalism, then it works for me, and most of the rest of the world too.
If someone sells words and another sells music it belongs to them. If they want to share or give it away, the decision is up to them, no one else.
I think the focus of this discussion has shifted too far from huge corporations which make millions off others intellectual property, which is the big problem. If you don't like a book or a CD, don't buy it, that's all. I bitch about price all the time, and I'll be damned if I have to take out a second mortgage to buy a pair of Stones tickets, so some things I don't buy.
On the other hand, the RIAA is only bitching because they want to make more money while producing nothing. Screw 'em.
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |