On 15/06/07, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK. So if I can't perform live (due to terrible stage fright (see XTC), disability or any other reason), what do I do?
And if I develop RSI or another disability that prevents me doing my job? There is a reason we have a benefit for disability! We also have a little something called insurance that can cover you should you develop a disability.
And if you think that physical merchandise (by which I assume you mean t-shirts etc) can't be copied, you've obviously never been to any live gigs. Bootleg merchandise traders are legion - and in your happy "free" world, the band wouldn't own their own logos, album cover designs etc, so that bootlegging would be legal.
Your name and logo's would still be covered by "Trademark" and similar protections. Misrepresenting the source of a good is surely illegal isn't it?
Any other brilliant thoughts?
Why don't you offer something constructive for once? We could always use the donation model. Not sure how well that works though. Charities seem to get quite a bit. Could also use "advertising", but I really dislike advertising as advertisers are responsible for attempts to destroy the functionality of the Internet. (e.g. legitimate pop ups don't work anymore as people block pop ups to weed out the uninvited adverts. They are also responsible for the increasing problems with email due to spam.) Having said that I do prefer target adverts, if you advertise something I actually wanted anyway I may buy it from you. Anyway the presence of other business models is insignificant, I don't need an alternative business model to determine whether the current one is morally right or not. But that is another discussion. And the reason why people pay for things that they can get free may include: Lack of knowledge (if you don't know something exists you're not going to get it) They view the free product as inferior in some way (regardless of whether it is) Oh and the reason people pay when they can download illegally may not be "they are good people" it may have something to do with the "being sent to jail thing", or the lack of skill. as illegal content is driven underground. Andy -- SELECT * FROM remarks WHERE witty=1 LIMIT 1 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
