http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Where an Anonymous Coward says that he is a "creative professional" and that whoever arrives at stuff that "creative professionals" arrive at should own it forever and it's hard work.
I suggest he find easier work and let people who find that sort of thing easy do their thing.
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Claim by fyngyrz that people infringe copyright because the abstraction that someone actually put some valuable time into the work is too abstract for them to grasp. Also, individuals violating copyright on a "I copied this work to use for myself" level is antisocial
I point out that people put "valuable time" into lots of things. Doesn't mean they should get paid for it. And with people throwing around concepts like "the universe creates itself", I'm not sure anyone has a workable meaningful definition of what create or design actually means.
Fyngyrz claims that the whole copyright debacle is the most trivial of ethical mazes.
Bzipitidoo says " I disagree that copying is antisocial. Copying is a natural right, and has a long history. It is only our current customs that push the idea that copying is harmful, and attempt to regulate it and restrict it by fiat."
... Might as well argue that children should not receive the fruits of knowledge that our civilizations have produced over the millennia, without paying for the "privilege".
I've kind of lost interest in mining previous discussion I participated in, but there's more in those links that make for interesting reading.