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by Anonymous User on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:35:46 PM PDT

There are so many misconceptions here, I don't know where to start. You obviously have never made any money off of copyrighted work.

You are right that there are few Stephen Kings. Sounds like your opinion is that the rest of us are worthless and shouldn't even try, or should just "feel good" about our creations and leave it at that. At least you're not alone: it seems a lot of people have your attitude of "I think its too expensive and you should just give it to me for free." It's very easy to sit there and call us all "greedheads" without bothering to think about anything other than you own desire and lack of funds.

The fact of the matter is the vast majority of creative folks never get rich, but they make a modest living by creating LOTS of works that each sell a little OVER A LONG SPAN OF TIME. If we do as you propose and limit it to 2 years, for most of us that's giving away 80% of the revenue.

Your points are all very pure and idealistic, but I'd recommend you try looking at the world from the point of view of us who--if we can't make our modest livings creating stuff--will be reduced to creating hamburgers at McDonalds because we won't be able to eat or put a roof over our heads otherwise.

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