Scott Ingram wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gametech" <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> >>>> >>>> I would respect Intellectual property Laws a lot more if they >>>> expired in a reasonable fashion, that is to say if everything got >>>> released to the public domain after 7 - 10 - even 15 years the >>>> world would be a richer place for the human efforts put forth. But >>>> no, it's not the case people feel the need to strangle every last >>>> dime out of a piece of media/software. >>> >>> Well, Jhereg was published in 1983. Do you want to tell Steve that >>> we get to publish our own editions of it? >> >> What is the point? I don't want to publish my own edition of Jhereg, >> if you do you ought to talk to Steve. > > If his copyright expired at say, 20 years, then next year I wouldn't > have to talk to Steve. > > I could just take it. > > I don't think Steve would want to talk to me after that. > > -Scott Which would be his right, but his work has already affected you and the things you do, it's all relative anyway in a hundred years when we have devices that help record all of our experiences copyright will be broken, once I can access my database of experiences to full reproductive measure the single exposure is all one will pay for and not even likely that, I could just borrow something and then experience it once and look back to that experience through a device that reproduces it externally for me. Think of the computer evolved.