The intellectual property laws have been changed dramatically over the last few decades, largely at the behest of the Disney corporation, which, it must be said, made most of its “bank” out of characters which were in the public domain.

Guess I have to grab all those Clark Ashton Smith stories now, before some corporate hack scrubs them off the net.

That’s crazy. The guys who wrote “Winter Wonderland” died in 1935 and 1944.

Hey, totally off-topic, but this is a funny comment on intellectual property issues, prompted by a Warner Music Youtube scrubbing.

“Please, please stop feeding the trolls, particularly unemployed losers like [Question for Liberals], who has nothing to do but troll blogs and apparently never leaves his house since all his comments, 24/7, come from the same residential cable account.”

Tintin, 3/4/09

It shouldn’t. As Lincoln said, to paraphrase, labor should be above capital.

So we should increase the capital gains tax to a rate commensurate with that which the highest salaried income is taxed.

If the landlord throws you out and sues you for back rent, he is just forcing you to give up your money.

After all, what do you get for your rent? A place to live? But that is yours by birthright!!

Communism, baby!! We all own everything!!!

Then we all can all keep all of our money, while we’re sitting in the mud.

God what a putz. Sorry Tintin.

If there is anyone who has anything in common with the bank robber, it’s the government. Like the criminal, the government steals money through the threat of force.

WTF?

You know what else? Money doesn’t really “grow”. You can bury it in the ground and water it, but it’ll be the same size when you dig it up.

Are you kids going to force me to get out the “troll feeder” hats and make you put them on? You know who I’m talking to here.

Says who? How many divisions do you have?