re: #143 Dianna

That is your perfect right. However, if you want to make a living as a writer, or even just afford a nice Kimber for your significant other, it is nice to think that copyright keeps people from just stealing your work.

You know, people who suggest that there should be no copyright, or that it should only be a few years before it becomes public domain, have evidently never created something from scratch. Wrote, or invented, or put something together that never existed before.

If you had, you would suddenly understand.