Economic Left/Right: -6.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62This is about what I expected. :)
On 5/3/07, adamslim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
smst;199261 Wrote: > Two things: I disagree with your assessment of just how many people > avoid doing bad things solely due to fear of punishment. Perhaps its > my naivety which makes me think most people apply a sense of ethics > before considering the law. (And if enough people find their ethics to > be in conflict with the law, does that not mean that the law should be > reconsidered? A law serving the interests of a few to the detriment of > the many is surely not just.) Actually people do often just fear punishment. I think it was Melbourne where years ago (1920s?) the police went on strike, and all hell broke loose - riots and everything. One would hope that their sense of ethics would stop them from doing illegal stuff, but that may be a naive view. smst;199261 Wrote: > Secondly, while we don't live in a world in which "everyone is perfectly > honest", I think there are enough people who are mostly honest that to > assume dishonesty everywhere is wrongheaded. That's what DRM and > copy-protection are based on. Consider this: if 90% of people are > honest and 10% not, using DRM will inconvenience the 90% while perhaps > stopping some of the 10% (assuming it's uncrackable, which I don't > accept to be true); not using DRM will keep the 90% happy, while the > 10% copy as they like. So the question is whether the dent in that 10% > is worth the inconvenience and lost goodwill of the 90%. I don't think > it is. The 90/10 argument is a good one - why inconvenience the 90% to stop the 10%, when that 10% wouldn't buy your product anyway. You get no extra revenue from the 10%, and indeed may suffer when the 90% find it so inconvenient that they stop buying your product. Microsoft have (possibly inadvertently) exploited this: they generated their monopoly when Windows and Office had little or no copy protection, so was used by everyone. As soon as it gets adopted as a standard, enough people are honest and pay up to make you a fortune. If their products came out now, without the historical lock-up, everyone would use Linux and OpenOffice. willyhoops;199260 Wrote: > No i am just real right wing ... I am a UK financial markets guy... Try this for a more balanced angle on 'wingedness': http://www.politicalcompass.org/index - I suspect you may be authoritarian and right wing; it's an interesting perspective. But please people don't tar all finance professionals with the same brush: I'm more left-wing libertarian than Gandhi :) Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' ( http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
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