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Originally Posted by Chris
Copyright is about more than the commercial value of the work. It's about the right of the owner to decide if, and how, their work is used. I don't think it's tenable to claim that copyright should lapse when something ceases to have commercial value (not least because it would be very difficult to determine whether something might gain commercial value again in the future - things do go in and out of fashion).
There are dirty tricks being perpetrated by the big rights owners in the pursuit of 'lost sales' but the correct response is for the courts to take a more nuanced view of the actual financial loss incurred due to file sharing.
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you dont think its tenable but thats exactly how originally copyright was brought about. it originally lasted a few years only and whenever it ceased to have commercial value content was freely distributed.
now days its gone crazy lasting for many lifetimes and been enforced when there is no clear loss of revenue. this of course makes copyright infringement shoot up as copyright lasts much longer.
are we talking about whats moral or technically wrong?
both sides are doing lots morally wrong.
technically tho its not illegal to download copyright content only to distribute it.