If prostitution was legalized

[Tiberius]

My views on copyright are heavily influenced by Lawrence Lessig.

[libalchris]

Haven't heard of him, I'll have to look him up.

[Tiberius]

He invented Creative Commons, a very popular form of copyleft law.

[Violet]

True. Copyright is a tricky issue. It seems that some kind of copyright laws need to be enforced, but at the same time making it illegal to copy a file seems ridiculous.

Copyright shouldn't even exist.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Woud it be cheaper or more expensive than now?

In my area u can get a gorgeous escort, or like 200$/hour

But if it was legal I figured they would tax it

But then maybe more girls would be out there?

Go to Amsterdam,Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,or Las Vegas.

Here in Australia, ,prostitution is actually illegal in most places but tolerated just about everywhere as long as it remains unobtrusive.There is a brothel in my small suburb a few streets away.

Here prostitutes pay tax under some coy euphemism.

[Anomalocaris]

Go to Amsterdam,Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,or Las Vegas.

Prostitution is technically illegal in Las Vegas, although legal in parts of the rest of the state of Nevada.

Just how the illegality of prostitution in Las Vegas is respected by the locals is shown by the fact that hotels 1 block away from the strip charge by the hour, and underneath their bedsheet there are often water proof plastic covers that crackles when sat upon.

[libalchris]

True. Copyright is a tricky issue. It seems that some kind of copyright laws need to be enforced, but at the same time making it illegal to copy a file seems ridiculous.

Copyright shouldn't even exist.

I don't want to get into a whole off-topic discussion, but while it does seem ridiculous ostensibly, at the same time without it there's not much incentive to spend time and money to produce good software when you won't get much return for it.

[Violet]

I don't want to get into a whole off-topic discussion, but while it does seem ridiculous ostensibly, at the same time without it there's not much incentive to spend time and money to produce good software when you won't get much return for it.

And I'm considering patents on the same line of moronic thought.

On the contrary... innovators almost always meet their opportunity cost. What copyright then ensures is that the innovator has a monopoly over that innovation (for an excessively unreasonable period of time). It prevents competition (without which there is little progression), and the very existence of it denies much independent cooperation (companies will join together to manufacture a product that the patents of both prevents them from doing so individually).

Light concession, without copyright: innovators would have a harder time amassing sums far exceeding their opportunity cost.

Anyway... catch. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/in...gainst.htm It's a free version of a really awesome book I bought.

At its best, copyright and patent length should be reduced to a fraction of their current length.

[Aegrus]

True. Copyright is a tricky issue. It seems that some kind of copyright laws need to be enforced, but at the same time making it illegal to copy a file seems ridiculous.

Copyright shouldn't even exist.

Well, to an extent it should. If an author writes something, it's easy to read what he wrote and type an identical copy on any word processor, then publish it for free on an E-Reader. There needs to be some kind of protection from things like that happening.

[Violet]

Copyright shouldn't even exist.

Well, to an extent it should. If an author writes something, it's easy to read what he wrote and type an identical copy on any word processor, then publish it for free on an E-Reader. There needs to be some kind of protection from things like that happening.

I'm more in favor of changing how everything works, but I'll not let my anarcho-syndicalism get in the way here.

Many things are available for free online (or for cheaper, pirates gotta make money too)... this is called piracy. Most people would rather pay the artist for their work than visit some third party site and get it for free (along with whatever viruses that brings). Example: I could have just read the free version of what I linked in my last post, it was even on a first party source, but I bought the book anyway.