I Don't Care If The Koch Brothers

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The Crystal Ball Has A Question Mark In Its Center. There Are Some Fundamental Choices To Be Made. We Will Either Choose To Continue To Wage A Hopeless War To Preserve The Existing Architecture For Copyright By Upping The Stakes And Using Better Weapons To Make Sure That People Respect It. If We Do This, Public Support For Copyright Will Continue To Weaken, Pushing Creativity Underground And Producing A Generation That Is Alienated From The Copyright Concept.

So Uncritically Do We Accept The Idea Of Property In Ideas That We Don't Even Notice How Monstrous It Is To Deny Ideas To A People Who Are Dying Without Them.

There Is Still The Illusion That If We Could Declare Corporations Are Not People Or That Money Is Not Speech, All Would Be Solved. Regardless Of The Good In Those Ideas, It Wouldn't.

Creation Always Involves Building Upon Something Else. There Is No Art That Doesn't Reuse. And There Will Be Less Art If Every Reuse Is Taxed By The Appropriator.