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Listed below are comments made by UniqueSteve between Monday, 13th October 2008 and Thursday, 27th November 2008.

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Conflict over copyright 12:43pm on 27 Nov 2008 I don't understand why copyright should be a pension system for artists. That video argues for fairness in society, yet every other member of the public has to save for their retirement.

I'm not even quite sure how extending copyright helps all those musicians on less then £1500 a year if they don't see any benefit from the change for another 50 years.

Wouldn't the best solution in both cases be for the Government to step in and ensure musicians got a fair wage?
World of Warcraft: stick or quit? 10:37pm on 13 Nov 2008 Why is it so hard for old-media journalists (apparently trying to embrace new-media) to challenge the stereotype that gaming is intrinsically bad for you?

If I didn’t know any better I’d have come away from listening to your report thinking every person who played World of Warcraft was some hopeless gaming junkie. The game has over ten million subscribers world-wide, are you trying to suggest they’re all hopeless ‘addicts’?

Perhaps if you’d stopped to ask some of the people in that crowd what they gained from the game rather then focusing on what it took from them, you could pretend to have produced a balanced report.

I don’t play the game but I know plenty of people who do, all of whom somehow manage to balance their escapism with the real world.
Is music winning the digital war? 11:29am on 13 Oct 2008 Why have none of the BBC's journalists referenced the EU Telecoms Package amendment 138, passed on September 24th?

Given that it makes '3-strikes' style disconnections illegal under EU law without a court process, it would seem somewhat relevant to the discussion.

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