I feel dirty...

I'm not a copyrite Nazi, but i played one in class the other day...okay...i had to get that out of my system. So we had to read [insert copyrite essay here] and as a class discussion we had a debate the copy-right vs. the copy-left. I have to admit when it comes to copyrite issues, i am completely on the fence...so naturally, Dr Chandler put me on the right...*mutter* (j/k it was fun). The right believes that the copyrite laws were established to protect the creative process and encourage it by protecting the rites of those involved in creating it. The left, does not agree with piracy, etc...but it protects the need of the information to get out there. I get it. I could regurgitate all that we debated (which was a regurgitation of what we read...i really would have been more interested to hear my peers thoughts on the matter), and what we read...but this is my blog and i don't wanna ;)

that said:One day i would like to be an author and have one of my smutty novels published. I've worked hard on it...gods know i have...imagine if it hits the book stores and I sell one copy. He/she/it (to be pc because i don't believe only females read smutty novels) takes it home scans it and puts it up on the internet for all the world to read--for free! I"m a starving artist. My cat and I forced to sell our condo in FLorida and live on the streets and lets face it, Charlie is pissed because his momma should have kept her day job so he could keep up his Whiskas and catnip addiction. So i can see the importance of copyrights.

BUt when it comes to copyright laws, where does it all end? I think it becomes a problem when libraries can't scan books to put online. HOw much different is reading it online, and going to a library and reading it? SOmewhere in the essay, it mentioned selling books on a lease per read basis. But then what would happen to pretty floor to ceiling libraries? Will publishers find a way to publish self destructing books that turn to dust five minutes after you turn the first page?

Where does it end?