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"I’m saying I don’t care when the rats who bought the legislation they wanted (after repeatedly losing in Supreme Court cases of fair use) WHO have repeatedly stolen from the artists they claim to be protecting the interests of AND who have repeatedly stolen “from the little guy” because he has little legal chance at funding decades of appeals, when THOSE GUYS are wronged, I do not shed a tear. Not one.
The music industry was mob run for decades. The mob isn’t involved so much these days but it is just as corrupt if not more so.
Lie down with fleas, don’t complain when you get bit.

Toss out the endless revamps to copyright law. It doesn’t benefit the creators. It benefits the billion dollar monopolies. 100 years is more than enough “exclusivity”.

I don't know what revamps you're talking about (and I'm really not interested, either, so please don't send me the history of US copyright laws), but copyright laws most definitely do benefit artists...I know this firsthand.

"If the corporations weren’t so shielded from market forces for the crud they create today by the wealth of “old product” that they do not cherish (but still profit from), they would’ve gone bankrupt long ago (or had to surrender their pro-homo, anti-US, activism in the culture war)."

OK...what does this have to do with people pirating music online? Because that's what I've been talking about all along. How did you infer from my talking about illegal downloads that I was somehow giving the industry a pass? You made a quantum leap onto another topic somewhere along the line.

"You maybe haven’t heard about the cases because the companies get a slap on the wrist “cease and desist” order but they don’t pay for the violations."

Yeah, and "maybe" we never heard of them because the records burned up when the little green men from Mars landed and began shooting people with their ray guns. Regardless of why we never hear of the outcomes of these cases, those stories would never make the news anyway, because they're B-O-R-I-N-G. Boring stories don't get aired, because they make people change the channel, which isn't something any news or program director wants to happen.

"And you don’t “have to file your copyright in ten easy minutes”. Copyright now begins at the time of creation.

The big boys don’t like to respect it."

I didn't say "file" your copyright, I said "register" your copyright. Big difference. No, you don't have to register your copyright. Yes, you own the copyright as soon as you create your song, story, painting, whatever...you don't have to lift a finger. You own the copyright. But by registering your copyright with the Copyright Office, you establish an irrefutable time frame, proving you owned the rights to your creation, at a certain time and date.

That way, if/when Fox or The Weather Channel steal your hurricane pics, it's a matter of public record that you owned those pics before Fox and/or TWC used them (without your permission). It doesn't take a genius to see the advantage of registering a copyright, but unfortunately, some people just can't seem to be bothered to take that one, simple, but very important step. It's a form of insurance, in that you may never need it, but if you do, you'll be very glad you have it...and the big boys respect it.

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