No monopoly protection at all, and all culture would be funded by kickstarter (o...

krichman · on Sept 4, 2012

This would work just fine for, say, Louis CK, but how would unknown/new artists earn any money at all?

antidoh · on Sept 4, 2012

Work as waiters and barristas and software developers until their art pays the bills. Just like now.

briandear · on Sept 4, 2012

What's your address? I want to help myself to all of your stuff. So what if you've worked for it. I want it so I should have it. Private citizens ought not have the right to retain ownership of anything. Everything should be free right? So let's start at your house. It's cool though, you can have a kickstarter to buy new stuff. I might even chip in $5.

EliRivers · on Sept 4, 2012

Once again, a refusal to acknowledge the difference between taking a physical object and making a copy of some information. They're DIFFERENT THINGS.

I'll say that again for the hard of thinking. Taking a physical object is NOT the same as making a copy of some information.

Put another way, just to make sure, making a copy of some information is NOT THE SAME as taking a physical object.

derleth · on Sept 4, 2012

I want the right to root through your mail and remove anything that belongs to me. You can trust me because not trusting me means you're stealing from me, and stealing is wrong.