> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: iaamoac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 19 november 2002 21:28 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: NASA
> John, have you ever considered the fact that posting articles from The > Economist here prevent the owners and publisher of The Economist from > recuperating the costs of publishing said magazine? > *************************************************** > > To answer your question - which I know you value so much - Yes, I have > considered the possibility that posting an occasional article from _The > Economist_ on Brin-L might cause someone who might have purchased a > subscription to _The Economist_ to not purchase said subscription, and > then I rejected that possibility. Note that I did not explicitly mention subscriptions; surely you are aware that individual copies of _The Economist_ can be purchased at newsstands around the world. Posting a few articles here will probably not influence someone's decision to buy or not to buy a subscription; I will grant you that. However, if you had only mentioned those articles (and perhaps had given a brief summary) instead of posting the full text, people might have decided that the articles were interesting enough to warrant a walk to the nearest newsstand to buy a copy of the latest edition of _The Economist_. By posting entire articles, those people will now have no reason to go out and buy a copy of the latest edition; therefore, you may very well have deprived the owners and publisher of _The Economist_, as well as the owner of the newsstand, of income. (To take this into extremes: maybe the newsstand owner's wife will die because of your actions, because the revenue of those last few sales would finally have given her family enough money to pay for her life-saving operation.) In an earlier post, you claimed that people who use ad-blocking software are depriving hosting companies of income; that post suggested that you believe using ad-blocking software is therefore A Wrong Thing. Yet, you see nothing wrong with depriving the owners and publisher of The Economist of income by posting articles here. (I will ignore the obvious copyright violations.) Why is it wrong if others deprive companies of income, but not wrong if *you* do the same thing? (This is NOT a rhetorical question.) And why do you refuse to answer simple questions on-line? (This is also not a rhetorical question.) Jeroen "Money makes the world go round" van Baardwijk __________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
