Recent content by EdEdEd

... good lord, you're right. Man, first time I've been officially suckered into an argument with a guy on the Internet. Sorry, folks... I did no small part in keeping this argument going. I have a tendency to be obstinate when confronted by unrelentingly stubborn people. So, apologies to the...

...based off of what, exactly? Common sense? Because it would seem to me that people would sit around saying "I would like to create such-and-such, but odds are I won't make any money, so what's the point of putting any time and effort into it?" Obviously there are those who don't think like...

Thing about ideas: they aren't really infinite. This is most apparent in music. Let's say we've got fifteen notes, which is more than enough to make a recognizable chunk of melody. Of those fifteen, there are only so many possible notes that can be used, before we get to the upper or lower...

Silent_Player, I'm seriously curious right now: what's your stance on trademark or copyright law? They protect ideas, essentially, rather than reputation, but it's still the protection of something abstract. Would you say there should be no copyright, because there's no physical property being...

Libel and slander laws exist for the same reason as laws against assault: they protect people. Were it legal to just punch people in the face until you got your way, then society would be run by the musclebound and served by the meek and the bruised, but the law puts us on more of an even keel...