Creativity vs. Copyright

February 23, 2006
Daniel Miessler
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If you care about music or DRM, you need to think about a simple thing:

Everything is copied.

People making music today are taking beats and rythyms and countless other bits of other peoples’ work, and most of the time they don’t even realize it.

We need to guard against blatant theft, but creativity comes very commonly from the understanding and changing of art that came before it. And this should not be stopped.

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