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[QUOTE=Qaus;49372449]intellectual property as a whole is the stupidest idea anyone has ever come up with[/QUOTE] why? if an artist creates something and a giant corporation snatches it up and uses it to generate profit, isn't that bad? Isn't a video game a piece of intellectual property? Should I be able to burn DVDs of movies and games and sell them for five bucks a pop? Should I be allowed to open amazon.biz, using Amazon's own source code that I legally bought from an ex-employee, and copy their entire service as a business model? there should obviously be limits as to what can be considered property, but it is very clearly based in reality.
[QUOTE=Qaus;49372449]intellectual property as a whole is the stupidest idea anyone has ever come up with[/QUOTE] well thats kind of a silly thing to say
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49372493]why? if an artist creates something and a giant corporation snatches it up and uses it to generate profit, isn't that bad? Isn't a video game a piece of intellectual property? Should I be able to burn DVDs of movies and games and sell them for five bucks a pop? Should I be allowed to open amazon.biz, using Amazon's own source code that I legally bought from an ex-employee, and copy their entire service as a business model? there should obviously be limits as to what can be considered property, but it is very clearly based in reality.[/QUOTE] IP abuse like patent trolling, DRM, youtube/twitch audio removal, and obscene legal fines (often times larger than the bail for murder!!) for infringement convinced me it's a lost cause. Lets just apply natural selection to IP and see what people naturally and voluntarily choose.
[QUOTE=Qaus;49373607]IP abuse like patent trolling, DRM, youtube/twitch audio removal, and obscene legal fines (often times larger than the bail for murder!!) for infringement convinced me it's a lost cause. [/QUOTE] DRM and audio removal aren't abuse. you are not entitled to service on your terms. Patent trolling and large legal fines are management problems and are not related to the principle of the issue. Unless you plan on throwing capitalism out the window, IP law is in fact necessary for a healthy 21st century economy. Something isn't a "lost cause" because it happened to screw over a dozen people and prevented you from watching people play video games.
I also feel like the entirety of law causes an unhealthy economy more than anything else. If you want capitalism to reach its full potential you got to take off the training wheels.
[QUOTE=Qaus;49373833]I also feel like the entirety of law causes an unhealthy economy more than anything else. If you want capitalism to reach its full potential you got to take off the training wheels.[/QUOTE] Why would I invent shit if I could just steal other peoples ideas?
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49373834]Why would I invent shit if I could just steal other peoples ideas?[/QUOTE] Go for it dude, but keep in mind in an anarcho-capitalist system you have to be extremely competitive. You'll definitely make a quick buck making an iphone ripoff, small chinese manufacturers make money off of this stuff all the time because people weren't paying attention or didn't know better. But in the end, economic natural selection (and by extension the consumer) will decide who provides the best product/service and for what price. [editline]23rd December 2015[/editline] Make a Star Wars movie, "episode 0" Get 0 of the people who worked on or acted in the [I]real[/I] movies and you'll get 0 people in the theatre
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49373738]DRM and audio removal aren't abuse.[/QUOTE] I would personally argue that drm is definitely abuse seeing as more often than not it affects legitimate customers negatively while often providing only a minor barrier to pirates at best.
Anarcho capitalism is retarded
[QUOTE=Qaus;49373843]Go for it dude, but keep in mind in an anarcho-capitalist system you have to be extremely competitive. You'll definitely make a quick buck making an iphone ripoff, small chinese manufacturers make money off of this stuff all the time because people weren't paying attention or didn't know better. But in the end, economic natural selection (and by extension the consumer) will decide who provides the best product/service and for what price. [editline]23rd December 2015[/editline] Make a Star Wars movie, "episode 0" Get 0 of the people who worked on or acted in the [I]real[/I] movies and you'll get 0 people in the theatre[/QUOTE] do you genuinely think this would work?
not necessarily would, but could.
[QUOTE=Qaus;49373843]Go for it dude, but keep in mind in an anarcho-capitalist system you have to be extremely competitive. You'll definitely make a quick buck making an iphone ripoff, small chinese manufacturers make money off of this stuff all the time because people weren't paying attention or didn't know better. But in the end, economic natural selection (and by extension the consumer) will decide who provides the best product/service and for what price. [editline]23rd December 2015[/editline] Make a Star Wars movie, "episode 0" Get 0 of the people who worked on or acted in the [I]real[/I] movies and you'll get 0 people in the theatre[/QUOTE] Even if an anarcho-capitalist system formed, I don't see how a new state wouldn't arise. Not some "power void" bullshit, but because it's literally in the interest of businesses to establish and use a state.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;49373874]I would personally argue that drm is definitely abuse seeing as more often than not it affects legitimate customers negatively while often providing only a minor barrier to pirates at best.[/QUOTE] making a crappy product hardly qualifies as abuse [QUOTE=Qaus;49373843]Make a Star Wars movie, "episode 0" Get 0 of the people who worked on or acted in the [I]real[/I] movies and you'll get 0 people in the theatre[/QUOTE] you wouldn't need to make star wars episode 0, though you could steal a copy of Star Wars VII before it came out in theaters and sell bootleg copies of it in stores not that normal theaters would exist in that environment anyway, since there would be 0 exclusivity the greatest profiteers in the entertainment industry would be the people who could produce copies of books, games and movies most cheaply not that anyone would write books, produce movies, or develop games when you would always face a losing battle against anyone better at selling your product than you are
I find most of the "Big franchises" boring. Star Wars BTTF Harry Potter LoTR The Hobbit etc.... They really just dont interest me and i can't understand why people get so obsessed by them.
Well, what does interest you?
[QUOTE=Laferio;49374277]Well, what does interest you?[/QUOTE] Anything, really, i just enjoy movies for being movies. I guess i prefer films that just stay as one film and not a story spread across 3-7 films. Its hard to explain. I enjoy load of different films. But LOTR just makes me literally fall asleep in the cinema, i have no interest in Star Wars, Harry potter is more nostalgic than anything to me. BTTF i guess is a bit too old for me maybe since i was quite young when it came out. I enjoy the marvel stuff but thats because i grew up loving super heroes. Since i love Skyrim, WoW, Diablo etc.. i would have thought i'd love LOTR, Harry Potter, The Hobbit etc... but i just don't see the appeal. .
Sounds like you like movies based in reality.
At some point, butter becomes really, really gross. Everyone likes to talk about how much they'd love to smother things in butter and I don't believe I have that same drive in me.
[QUOTE=Mr. Zombie;49374453]Sounds like you like movies based in reality.[/QUOTE] Actually, that might be it, i like films based on current time.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;49374626]At some point, butter becomes really, really gross. Everyone likes to talk about how much they'd love to smother things in butter and I don't believe I have that same drive in me.[/QUOTE] I don't know of anyone who likes more than the thinnest layer of butter on something. Eventually you're just tasting this nasty film of fat and it's like :vomit:
[QUOTE=Mr. Zombie;49374688]I don't know of anyone who likes more than the thinnest layer of butter on something. Eventually you're just tasting this nasty film of fat and it's like :vomit:[/QUOTE] If we are talking about a slice of bread, butter with liver paste, salami/parisian, jam or go bust. Fat is also acceptable replacement, you may sprinkle red pepper spice on top of it and eat onions if you are really broke.
I fucking love butter. I put a pretty thick layer of it on my sandwiches, veg etc....
my mom used to bake bread with butter on it tasted p good
[QUOTE=Mr. Zombie;49374688]I don't know of anyone who likes more than the thinnest layer of butter on something. Eventually you're just tasting this nasty film of fat and it's like :vomit:[/QUOTE] I just saw someone's recipe for some heart-attack food that basically soaked their monster fried creation into a pool of melted butter. I dunno what it is, but seeing melted butter like that makes me want to hurl.
Buttered noodles are pretty ok when you're broke as fuck.
[QUOTE=Qaus;49373833]I also feel like the entirety of law causes an unhealthy economy more than anything else. If you want capitalism to reach its full potential you got to take off the training wheels.[/QUOTE] you're forgetting contract law, laws regarding property ownership, renting, development, etc in a modern healthy economy you need a fair and transparent legal system that operates smoothly as it arbitrates disputes and clearly defines who owns what.
[QUOTE=Anderan;49374822]Buttered noodles are pretty ok when you're broke as fuck.[/QUOTE] Or if you're rich, annual income doesn't change the flavor :v
[QUOTE=Mr. Zombie;49374453]Sounds like you like movies based in reality.[/QUOTE] And yet he likes Marvel movies. 'Contemporary setting' movies might be a more fitting descriptor.
Intellectual property does need to exist but its broken in its current form. It simply lasts far too long and to the point that it doesn't fulfill the original reason why it was created. It was created to reward innovation and incentivize it. You need to be able to profit from originality or otherwise you have no reason to be original (from a financial perspective anyway). US copyright is as long as you are alive + 70 years and I have heard of attempts to make it indefinite. I don't care how skilled you are at your profession you are not going to be incentivized to keep producing more work after you are dead. This only serves to line the pockets of whoever owns your shit and I don't believe it is in the public interest to have it be so insanely long.
Arguing about sexualisation is quite pointless considering [B]everything[/B] is sexy and while everything isn't sexy, whole definition of something being "sexy" comes from your brain. So if you find something as sexualised you should be blamed as much as the thing you claim to be sexualised.
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