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On Friday 20 September 2002 11:45, you wrote:
> R> The assumption that "a copy made is one less copy paid for" is
> R> also a bogus statement.
>
> No, it is valid. In analog days, the copy was less perfect and thus
> you could not copy copies of copies; the trading was self-limiting.
>
> Digital copies are not copies, they are indistinguishable from the
> original. They /are/ the original (in the Andy Warhol sense) and so
> therefore, without qualification, the copy is a sale not made: If you
> have Eminem on your HD, there is _zero_ reason to buy the CD, you
> will get identically the same product.
not necessarily true. many people who d/l won't buy no matter what, and some
who d/l will buy because of the download; therefore a copy made doesn't not
map directly to one less sale. sometimes it maps to an additional sale that
wouldn't otherwise be there.
this also assumes that having the original media (including liners, bonus
offers, etc) is not worth anything to the listener, while it often is.
> The question is not that the copy is a lost sale. The question is
> whether or not that sale is /important/ --- if your pet artist
> generates 9000% more income, does it matter if bootlegging of their
> material is up 500%? No, it doesn't. That's the _crux_ of this issue.
well, they want every sale they can get... too bad they don't get the
connection between sharing and sales ...
janis ian's articles on this have been most insteresting since they come from
someone "in the trenches" and show that sharing actually increases sales, at
least for artists that aren't in the current top 10 limelight.
> FWIW, back in the 80's we did a /lot/ of illegal file trading over FTP
> connections;
that and quiet, member-only BBS's ... not that much has changed in that world,
really. still lots of private/quiet copyright infringement servers out
there...
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Aaron J. Seigo
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