Re:Copyright/Copywrong we need a REAL debate (Score 1)

You're absolutely right about why copyrights were created, they were supposed to create a balance. A Balance between lassiez faire economics, and a society that would have a culture. However, the problem with capitalism, is that it promotes greed. Even the richest people in the world still work, still invest, knowing that it's a zero-sum game, to gain one dollar, someone has to lose at least one dollar/Euro/Rupple/Seashell. So Like most laws meant to protect the integrity of anything that isn't money, it got twisted over years and years of people trying to figure out how to profit off of it. We need a real debate, but unless you can find a way that having a real debate would make someone a ton of money, it won't be heard. Furthermore, Artists are upset over this because in the state of affairs today, they only get a small percentage of the money their creation brings in. The label ends up ripping off most of their artists treating them like prised possesions rather than contributing artists. The Record labels, are only beneficial to a point, we are now seeing more and more artists surpassing that point. For instance, Dr. Dre no longer needed to be part of a label, so his label gave him a label of his own, so he can help the step below him, which ended up being Eminem, who surpassed that point aswell, and got his own sub-label, and now we have Shady Records, a sub-division of Aftermath, a Sub-Division of Atlantic, a sub-division of Viacom?....[not sure about that last part,] And thats when the labels are either forced into being responsible or just happen to have a heart of gold, and decide they should do that. Because in reality, now Viacom, and Clear-Channel are entirely obselete, what do they do other than own other companies? [I can't spell, so shut the fuck up if your thinking of telling me that]