----- Original Message ----- From: "Gametech" <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:39 AM Subject: Re: Artificial release dates and online publishing > 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, Which is fine, because I paid for the book and the priviledge of reading it. > 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. So basically you're saying that you'll have a portable scanner and CD-burner. And maybe have it hard-wired into your brain so you can record the imput >from your ears, or something? Yeah, portable computers rock, it's still piracy though.