[BNM] Is it just me or is theme building in Drupal an absolute bas*ard?

[Nick Taylor]

>> Stop thinking in the short-termed way you've been conditioned to think
>> in created from old laws which were brought in when it cost a lot of
>> money to make a copy.
> 
> The ease of copying has nothing to do with it. People put effort into
> creating something. It's up to them to decide what they want to be
> compensated for that effort. Copyright gives them legal protection for
> their efforts.


Hmmm... I think that somewhere out there is a system of morality that 
holds that attempting to create an artificial scarcity by creating 
information, then withholding it from the culture that provided you with 
the information that you needed to create it... is...well, immoral.

But we're in a transitional phase at the moment, so these things are not 
yet clear I suspect.

This :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMDR0yrxMw

used to be a meddly of songs that Led Zepplin had been "influenced" by - 
ie: they were more or less direct rip-offs. Warner Music Group's lawyers 
decided that they were going to remove not only songs by their 
artists... but melodies as well... even in those cases where the 
melodies were stolen in the first place.

And you, good people, are not granted the dignity of deciding what you 
think because it's been censored.

The Jake Holmes version is still there - and is pretty good, 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc . Bet you've never heard of him.

Fuck Warners, fuck copyright, fuck patents, fuck IP law, fuck artificial 
scarcity.


So that's my 2c...

...or it would be my 2c, but now it's published into a realm where 
anyone can copy and distribute infinitely at zero cost, then it's no 
more mine than the air that I breathed while writing it.




Nick



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