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Personally, I think the whole copyright thing needs a good rethinking.

What the other fellow said was right: it is a copyright nobility. And not just for the musicians, not even primarily for the musicians, but for parasites who have essentially no role in the creation of music.

I remember back before videos, it used to hack me off that Disney would lock their famous cartoons away for years at a time. Their property, sure, but were copyrights ever intended to last so many decades?

I find it offensive that music industry parasites are able to grossly overcharge for CDs. I'd rather pay 5 bucks direct to the artist for a file download to burn my own CD. That's more than the artist makes under the current system, anyway.

I say, cut copyrights back to a reasonable term, which under no circumstances is to outlive the creator of the work. Let the music industry scale back to a level more appropriate to the services they provide. And push for paid downloads direct from artists.

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what would really hack disney off would be if dreamworks would start to redo animated versions of pinochio, sleeping beauty, snow white, king arthur, beauty and the beast. All out of copyright stories.