Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 405
This isn't a communist ideology.
A communist ideology is based around the idea of limited wealth.
Ideas/music/movies can be copied an infinite number of times.
Everyone can have a copy, and nobody loses anything.
Copyright/patent is intended to encourage new thought by allowing people who have new ideas to make a living from coming up with new ideas.
The record companies want to be able to come up with a single idea, and continue to make money off of that single idea for the lifetime of the author they buy it from.
Do you really think it's fair that a competent engineer can come up with hundreds of unique ideas per year and still make $100,000 during the years he is working for a company paying for those, but an artist and/or record company only needs to come up with a few great ideas in a lifetime and continue to generate wealth on them?
A communist ideology is based around the idea of limited wealth.
Ideas/music/movies can be copied an infinite number of times.
Everyone can have a copy, and nobody loses anything.
Copyright/patent is intended to encourage new thought by allowing people who have new ideas to make a living from coming up with new ideas.
The record companies want to be able to come up with a single idea, and continue to make money off of that single idea for the lifetime of the author they buy it from.
Do you really think it's fair that a competent engineer can come up with hundreds of unique ideas per year and still make $100,000 during the years he is working for a company paying for those, but an artist and/or record company only needs to come up with a few great ideas in a lifetime and continue to generate wealth on them?
