Comment Right? (Score 4, Insightful) 283
It seems there is a heavy feeling of entitlement as far as media and the arts go here.
Like people often say here, ideas are a dime a dozen. The implementation is the hard part.
Especially given how some smokers, when foul weather hits, seem to think its their god given right to blockade the entrances and exits to building so that they can light up.
I do it on purpose for all the people who voted to take our rights away (I live in Wisconsin, ban was enacted July 5th). There is no demand for non smoking bars (not where I live anyway). If there was there would have been non-smoking bars before the ban and bars wouldn't be going out of business, shortening their hours and closing on Mondays.
You can't own blue
Well no shit. However, a painting is more than just a single color, or an arrangement of different colors.
Are you against the ownership of cars because no one can own the element iron?
I think you are either confused or being deliberately obtuse by confusing physical objects (statues, paintings, etc.) and IP (the force, maybe musical recordings).
The problem is, what stops you, as a scalper, from buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up?
A. Less people buy the tickets and you make less money.
B. Far less people buy the tickets and you lose money.
Look at the state the US got into on the international scene when all the stories about deception and torture in Iraq started coming out.
Uh, yeah. Nothing has happened?
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