I wouldn’t say copyright laws completely sucks. If it were not for copyright and patents, we would not have had many if not all the stuff we have today. Copyrights and patents do keep many from steeling your ideas. After all, why should someone profit from your idea that you worked so hard to see come true.

I just bought the COPYRIGHT to the Ten Commandments!

If everyone's ideas and inventions were pubic domain, who would risk their time, effort and money to create them?

I certainly wouldn't impoverish myself over an effort I had no chance of recouping my losses from, while watching others trade on and benefit from it...such as selling the download to a book my company spent a small fortune purchasing the rights to.

Just sayin'.

If everyone's ideas and inventions were pubic domain, who would risk their time, effort and money to create them?

I certainly wouldn't impoverish myself over an effort I had no chance of recouping my losses from, while watching others trade on and benefit from it...such as selling the download to a book my company spent a small fortune purchasing the rights to.

Just sayin'.

I am thinking both parties are two heads of the same snake.

maybe,Berzelius Windrip might ring a bell!

yes... and who extended it till 2014? i'll wait for your answer...

That's a relief!…I was afraid the bank was gonna get them and lend them back to us at interest!…At their compounding rate it'd be no time at all before we had more commandments than we could possibly read, let alone follow.




IMO, copyright on books should move to the public domain upon the death of the author…But I'm not as upset by the copyright legislation as I am by the atrocity that patent law has become. Monsanto patented (or bought the patents on) huge swaths of human genetic code. You can count yourself lucky if they don't have royalty rights to some of your genes.

If you thought the carbon tax was a bad idea, just wait…Pretty soon you'll have to send Monsanto royalties for yourself and your kids' patented DNA sequences, or lose the farm when they sue you for them.




I would.

Just sayin'.

They can have the rights to my genes that they want...they still won't fit them.




Not everyone is independently wealthy.

That depends what you mean by wealthy. IMO bankers are the poorest and most useless parasites on earth, and while I may scrounge the streets for discarded cigarette butts to smoke, I count myself as one of the wealthiest people going...I have true friends.

I work to serve my fellows; I don't work to serve myself.

I prefer real books anyway.

They deleted the books perhaps because they did not want to be sued and made to pay someone the money that they made.

I didn't realize until recently that you could not download a purchased book to your computer or to a thumb drive to keep it safe.

I think some trademark and copyright laws do suck. I agree that a book should become public domain after the author dies. The only people who benefit are the publishers anyway. Patent laws are getting ridiculous.

The thing about a real creative person is they can always write something else, or paint a new picture or invent something new.

The blood suckers who want to enforce copyright laws are the publishers and the greedy corporations who want to milk a product for all they can get and they usually try to screw the creator out of his piddly share of the profits. The lizard alien hybrids have no creative faculty. They are blood sucking and brain picking robots.

I commend you for it, Dukky, but do you think Bill Gates could have created Windows without a resource to his name? Innovation takes a time commitment and the funding that most can't come by without working our way to the financial state that opens the possibility. Brilliance alone does not an invention make.

You can buy it in Canada. Amazon.ca

I can't wait to hear dum dums make comments about socialist Canada...

It's politically naive anyway than to tie censorship, control, etc to democrats, the Bush folks did stuff like that too...

http://www.amazon.ca/1984-ebook/dp/B005PMWJBQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365734371&sr=8-1&keywords=1984+kindle

It's kind of funny you used the example you did...I know a bit of the history around it....

While I kinda like Bill Gates for his business acumen and his intelligence, I can't say too much for his creativity, or his respect for the intellectual property of others....

When Windows first came out, it was simply a poorly constructed executive that ran on top of what was called MSDOS (another story I'll get to in a minute). It was an attempt to try not to lose too much market share to Apple's new "GUI" operating system (which was itself, a relatively uncreative ripoff of work being done at the Xerox PARC facility (the mouse, screen icons, etc. were all "stolen" from Xerox...So much for THAT intellectual property)). I remember the first Windows well...It was a bloody abortion!...Windows didn't even START looking worthwhile until version 3.

MSDOS (originally licenced to IBM as PCDOS for their new IBM PC in 1981) was NOT created by Bill and did NOT use any of his resources. He had already made a hugely profitable (many millions) deal with IBM on the licensing BEFORE he acquired the OS. After making the deal, he simply walked down the street and BOUGHT the intellectual property from its creator (who had invested almost all of his private resources in creating it) for $50k.

Needless to say, I have some issues with stuff like "intellectual property"...especially when greedy speculators can rip off the hardworking creators.

Yes, but I was using the example in its vaguest form though. The point was not about the specific product. It still took money to bring the invention to fruition, no matter how it came about. That's the bottom line. If no individual/company could make a profit off their efforts, there would be nothing to make another effort WITH. Progress would slow considerably...much of which help if not saves millions, like heart valves and air bags.

Let's look at this in a different light altogether. I know in the building business, I can't build next year what I don't profit from this year. Period. I participate heavily in various housing programs. When I do this, I have to pay my people to build non-profit, because they still have to eat. So, doing it cost me the profits from several jobs I do turn a profit on. If all I did were charity jobs, how would I finance them and how would I feed myself? I have to make a profit, just to HAVE something to give.

Nope,it's because you have to deal with the Law-Offices of Dewey,Shaftem&Howe!

I think anyone who owns a Kindle should send a strongly worded message to them that removing anything without permission is stealing ... and tell the rest of the world about it too.

Bad publicity hurts.

If possible, you should get your money back on the reader and buy another brand.