Comment Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score 1) 705
'We sang "Happy Birthday" to her in the theater,'
A copyrighted work? Performed in public? If I were a lawyer my nipples would explode with joy. The planets have aligned for an orgy of copyright violations! Tell me, in the video were you also photocopying the Harry Potter books with a scanner hooked up to a laptop with a cracked version of Windows 7 on it?
Welcome Citizen... to your future!
We were so busy being scared of the communists (a la 1984) that we forgot to fear the other extreme: Unregulated free markets. It's funny how the unregulated *free* market seems to regulate us so well.
Actually, that isn't a "free" market principle you are trying to use to tear down the free market. Overly controlling copyright and patent protections by an interfering government further restrict the free market. So, to be clear, it is government over-regulation that is making big and bloated corporations and making them walk around with stiff "units". Patents and copyright USED to be reasonable and enough to reward the inventor and after a short time then allowed everyone to compete with it. Patents and copyrights of a mere 15 years used to be the norm, and renewing a copyright you had to have a very good reason. Once the patents or copyrights expire, it allows everyone to compete and thus helps the free market. This also encourages continuous innovation and development without having to rely on older product. The government screwed up the free market by OVER REGULATION and increasing the patent and copyright expiration periods (to ridiculously long periods!) and restrictions. You can thank greedy politicians who are in the pockets of these conglomerates (all parties too). The kind of market that was created was a "monopolistic" market, not a free market. There are far too many companies that have been allowed to become too big. Splitting apart conglomerates is good for a free market. It is what the FTC was originally set up for. Who benefits from large conglomerates with a lot of power? Government and unions. You see a free market works better with competition. Had we had a true free market, then the likes of AIG, Enron, GM, Microsoft, and the large entertainment conglomerates etc. would not exist as they are now.