Copyright Law and Me

This last week in class we learned about copyright laws, and guess what: my opinion didn't change much. I feel how I have always felt about them. They are the fabrication of evil and conspiring men to keep the money in the hands of the rich and to suck the joy out of the lives of the poor. It really boils down to simple economics. If you are making money off of something that I created, the chances are that I am not. Boohoo for me. Sorry to musicians and moviemakers and other creative people. I really feel like those who want to make more money need to lower prices and create a better product. I'm personally tired of paying too much money for an album with one good song or a movie that I only sort of like. Yeah, yeah, I know. ITunes and the like take care of things like that. Well, I'm not even going to pay a dollar (or whatever it is now) to you as a mediocre (or even good to great) artist to buy the "license to listen to" your song when you're going to charge me $60 for a concert that you don't even sound as good when I go to. In addition to that, I don't want Apple making more money when they don't lower the ludicrous prices of their iPods and accessories, but that's a rant for another day. I'm not condoning getting illegal movies or music. I don't do it, and I don't think it's even okay, but here's the bottom line. Copyright laws serve a very small group of people, and that's the copyright owner, their lawyers that write the copyright laws, and the companies they work for. I think the only way to change it to make it completely equitable is to do away with copyrights altogether, but you and I know that the suits will never let that happen. In the meantime, stick it to the man in the only way possible, in the wallet.