Copyright monopoly study claims "without copyright, no computers"

http://falkvinge.net/2011/11/22/this-is-why-copyright-monopoly-pundits-go-so-very-wrong/

by ZeroMinx • 15 years ago

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brlewis• 15 years ago

They forgot to mention that without copyright there would be no clothes or cars, since the purpose of those items is unquestionably to dress up and drive to the movies. There wouldn't be any food either, because why would people eat if they couldn't watch TV at the same time? If you dispute this, just do a google image search for "TV dinner" and you'll see lots of photographic evidence to back me up.

masklinn• 15 years ago

Hell, without copyright there would probably be no breasts or genitals either, their only purpose being to film pornographic movies and take pornographic pictures.

Yeah I heard about this "reproduction" fable, never found a picture of it on google image either.

dlikhten2• 15 years ago

Clearly without copyright there would be no copyright. I was unable to find a copyright picture on google that was not copyrighted.

"Yo dawg, I heard you like copyrighting, so I copyrighted your copyright application, so you can violate copyright while you copyright."

pyre• 15 years ago

Sounds like someone felt like there was no need to fact-check whatever they were writing. Maybe it was written by some young staffer that only uses computers for YouTube and/or video games?

Otherwise it's pretty unforgivable that the writer could not imagine any other use for computers than media consumption of some sort. They were originally created for business/military as number-crunching devices.

HnNoPassMailer• 15 years ago

Lobbyists.

nhebb• 15 years ago

Link to document in question: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/divers/stoa/201...

weff• 15 years ago

There has to be an explanation for this besides utter incompetence.

eCa• 15 years ago

Conflict of interest, perhaps?

dlikhten2• 15 years ago

If you pay a man 100,000 for a month of work, that man will produce any answer to any question.

eru• 15 years ago

I don't see any conflict.

route66• 15 years ago

http://www.erawatch-network.com/en/Members/founder/technopol... seems to be the epicenter of this research, at least two of their employees come up as responsible in the report.

The blurb behind this link reveals them or as lobbyists "on demand" or just one of these uncountable organizations which feed from the seemingly unlimited amounts of taxpayers money in EU policy making. Probably both.

meric• 15 years ago

The content industry would not exist without content-consumption device industry.

Without screens or speakers, no music or movies to copyright.

In other news, computers and the internet allows content-producers to bypass content-distributors and self-publish content.

Copyright monopoly study claims "without copyright, no computers"

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