Because saving the world shouldn't factor into your decision. Financial gain is the only valid reason to do anything.

As if there's a significantly lucrative market for silent films these days.

Freaking capitalists.... Because money is the only reason to do anything. You are like the religious people who believe that morality would not exist without god except that it's "incentive would not exist without monetary gain".

What really happens is this: Whom ever owns the copyright sits on those films and does nothing because there is no monetary incentive. The film buff(s) who would donate their time to restore and archive the work are sued if when they try.

Most everything is derivative. It's not possible to be uninfluenced by copyrighted material.

Also, how is it remotely fair that the IP owners can perpetually reap income from work that was performed even 10 years ago let alone 70? Most of us get paid once for the work we do. Are the IP owners (not necessarily even the creators...) so much more deserving than the rest of us? Fuck everything about this system. IP does not exist. It's a figment of our collective imagination. I'm all for fair play but perpetual IP protection is not it.

...try doing "cybersecurity" for the Army. It is truly suicide inducing. Source: been there, done that.

Why are rapists getting the chance to be repeat offenders and what can we do about that?
Rapists, especially of minors, deserve the worst our criminal justice system can dish out, more so than your run of the mill murderer, IMO.

You are correct. Your comment is overrated. How'd you do that?

(BTW... it's the US media's job to sell advertising. They are not beholden to anything else.)

Childless Troll

Oh yeah, that's right. She's not a hypocrite on human rights. Gays just don't deserve any. Who else?

Does this mean that President Fiorina will cut off ties to Saudi Arabia once elected? Didn't think so....

It's a UK article and the author seems to have found a source:
"Official figures confirm the picture she paints, with emergency admissions to child psychiatric wards doubling in four years, and those young adults hospitalised for self-harm up by 70 per cent in a decade."

Pretty much this. This is not a gift horse this is playing catch up. The question now is which surveillance/sales & marketing platform do you trust the most?

  It probably doesn't matter since there's no long-term future in general.

I'm afraid of Russian nukes too but I fail to see how any one could do anything but laugh at us over this request given our military posturing.

Perhaps, but "intellectual property" is a figment of a collective imagination and not entirely consensual.

More offensive to me than a jury's decision that Blurred Lines violated copyright law is that Marvin Gaye's children (or anyone, for that matter) feel entitled to income from a dead man's 40+ year old music. To hell with perpetual and transferable intellectual property rights.