[Info-vax] HTTP/2 stole my Applet

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 7:39:22 PM UTC+12, Qu0ll wrote:

> Well, as a composer myself, I find all these lawsuits rather pointless, 
> tedious and (mostly) entirely unwarranted.

Copyright law was not created to help out struggling artists, but to entrench the power of the publishers and distributors (and collection societies). Successful, established artists also find it a useful weapon against the upstart competition.

As I like to keep pointing out, if William Shakespeare were to try to make a living today, he would be sued into penury. There was no copyright in his day; he lifted plots and characters wholesale from others, and others copied from him. Yet he still was successful enough to provide for two wives in his will.