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Anticopyright King 5, Checkmate

Anticopyright King 5

Short but sweet! YouTubes recent post, the claim, “one hour of video is uploaded to You Tube every second”. It adds up to 1 century or a hundred years of video is put up on their website every ten days. Coincidently You Tube has certified and validated the death of copyright laws. My claim that “internet has killed the copyright star” is proved beyond any doubt by You Tube. Aside from the fact that no one person or even a conglomerate of thousands could view all the videos for infringements, there is the possibility they would use technology to search for key words, etc. and still the follow up by human interaction will never in a thousand years be able to see, read, and reflect, debate, study, etc the lower number of prescreened stories. The reason is simple, the numbers are growing exponentially, soon it will be 10 centuries of video stories being uploaded every 5 days, and many of those will be full length movies, either in one segment or divided, some put up on Youtube with links to the rest of the stories on other sites.

Copyright laws are dead, a dinosaur, like video killed the radio star, internet is killing the copyright star. Get over it! You will still be able to sell your works, just do it without the socialist copyright government protection. Free enterprise will prevail! The other option is a dark and unfriendly sky, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Stalinist era Russia, and Communist China, a place where men and women will be arrested and sent to prison for simply writing a book, making a movie, and singing a song.

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  • You argue as if I agree with the status quo.  No.  I maintain that copyright ought not last beyond an artist's lifetime.  Although that is typical now, it is not absolute and it should be.  I would agree with such a system now and in a million years.

    bullfrogpond, 1 week ago | Flag

  • So even when if it becomes one million years of art, music and videos uploaded every day you'll still see the system that we have in place as useful and functioning properly? And we may see those numbers, perhaps already there on a global level. Bullfrogpond your age is showing.

    vanhellslinger, 1 week ago | Flag

  • Oh, I'm wrong a lot, and usually admit it.  On this matter, however, I do not believe I'm wrong and therefore have no motivation to allow it.

    bullfrogpond, 4 weeks ago | Flag

  • Darn it bullfrogpond can't you ever be wrong once in your life? The "system" is dead, finished, and needs to be replaced. Of course creators should be rewarded. People that created music and art have always found reward for their talents long before copyright laws were created. The system that existed from the early 1900's to now allowed some high school drop out to sing out a rock and roll song and live like kings and queens is over. So they will take a cut, so what? Were they supposed to be making more than the real kings and queens? Did Mozart own more gold than the courts he catered? There was a perspective of balance before the 20th century that we may be returning to, and the only thing that can be done to stop it is something I know YOU don't believe in.

    vanhellslinger, 4 weeks ago | Flag

  • The enforcement of copyright law is certainly dead, but this argument is as absurd as the argument to legalize all drugs because everyone is doing them anyway.  Let's just open the bank vaults for open-season withdrawal because everyone deserves a fair share?  Where does that argument stop but when we run out of other people's money. 


    Your argument that pirating on YouTube and elsewhere is inevitable may certainly be our present experience, but it is NOT free enterprise.  You misuse the concepts of both "free" and "enterprise."  It does not imply that product should be distributed free of charge.  It means that the distribution and offer for sale of commodities -- and intellectual property, in this instance -- should not be corrupted either by excessive regulation, or by piracy.  If everyone has free access to one's intellectual property, where is the incentive to buy it?  Then where is enterprise, free or otherwise?


    I've pointed out before that the gray skies of Russia and China to which you refer were the RESULT of ending artistic license, free expression, and retention of intellectual property rights, not BECAUSE of them.

    bullfrogpond, 4 weeks ago | Flag

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