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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4698782" data-attributes="member: 5143">I agree.  However, they are still 2 sides to the same coin.  It's all about "Intellectual Property".  Or, ideas that someone owns.  It's good that Patent lengths haven't been extending.  I hadn't heard this and I'm glad that is the case.  Still, if it's good for ideas, why doesn't the same apply to Copyright?  I don't see one being completely different than the other.Yeah, and this sort of idea I could get behind.  But, I think the terms should be shorter.  I think these sort of long term copyrights made sense in the past, but as technology and the spread of information increases, the amount of time one person should own an idea should decrease.In today's world, an episode of Seinfeld is worth almost nothing.  I'd say that 90+ percent of everyone who wants to see them already has.  Sure, people like the show and there might be sales of the DVDs going on, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it is less than 10% of what it was when the show was on.Anyone who wants to can download the episode off of somewhere on the internet.  And it is, frankly, just old news at this point(even though I really liked the show).I'm certain they could make a trickle of an income from the sales still going on.  But, why should they be able to?  I'm certain that the income that most TV/Movie studios are making off of residuals is half the reason they don't have a need to actually come up with new shows that are any good.  Even if they make moderate to no real profit off of a show, they don't care because they rest on the funds made from all their previous work.I guess I'm just coming from the point of view as a normal person who isn't involved in the industry.  If I got fired tomorrow, I'd probably be unable to feed myself after a couple of months of living off my savings.  I'd need a new job right away.  On the other hand, an author whose ever written anything that got really popular can live comfortably for years, if not the rest of their life off of their work.  I wouldn't be able to.  Nothing I've done in my life gives me money forever.  I'd still like to think the work I did was valuable.  The law is telling me that my work was less valuable than an author/artist/writer/musician simply because I did a service instead of thinking creatively.And it is this income that makes these companies/authors want to sue people and to lobby for tougher and tougher copyright laws.  The rest of us get treated like criminals.  I don't think its right.</blockquote>

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