On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > The thing I don't understand is that the content producers bang on > about "intellectual property" which, if I am understanding correctly > (and I believe I am) is the *content*. The music or movie or whatever.
I claim there's a lot more to it than that. And "intellectual property" is a misnomer. > So let's look at a practical example. I bought, say for the sake of > argument, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I bought it when I was a > teenager on cassette. A few years later, it comes out on > 8-track...Then on CD. why do I have to buy the *same* IP > > every time the industry decides to change formats? In my case, let's consider Dave Brubeck's album where they were playing around with time signatures. I don't remember the name, but it was the one with "Take Five" on it. When I bought it in my teens, the only format was vinyl disc. Then a few years later, it came out on CD. I bought that too. A friend of mine brought out the same argument you do. "How much would you pay," I asked him, "for a 1:1 dub of the 15 ips master tape of that disk? No surface noise, no turntable rumble, less wow & flutter, lower harmonic distortion, better frequency response, etc." "Oh, yeah," he said. If I buy an audio cassette of something, I've paid for the content. It seems reasonable to me that I have the right to make a copy of what I bought with machinery I own. But if I don't have access to a higher quality version of the music, and/or I want somebody else to make the copy, I'm going to have to pay something for it. > what about a movie. Bought it on BetaMax, > which was forced into obsolescence by teh content producers, so then > it was out on VHS, You could still watch it in BetaMax until your BM player died. And VHS barely worked anyway. You were better off with the BetaMax. > then LaserDisc, LaserDisc was a better format than either of the tape formats. And you still had your BetaMax version to watch. > then DVD, now Blu-ray. Both technical improvements (if you don't mind the DRM and FBI warnings). And you didn't have to buy either if you didn't want to. But if you did, you got a better version of the movie (longer lasting medium, higher resolution, takes up less space in your living room, etc.) Now, there oughta be a way to pay for just the improvements if you have an earlier version already, but our masters have decided not to provide such. It would be a real mess to implement anyway, and it likely wouldn't turn out any cheaper, what with all the bookkeeping and stuff... > It's akin to the grocery store charging you for the state of the food > you buy. Well, it was raw when we first charged you, now it is > cooked. Is Safeway a better cook than you are? Then pay them for the labor and utilities and tools needed to cook it. Is your friend a better cook? Then invite him/her over to share the dinner. Otherwise, cook it yourself. > Am I wrong here? A little bit. The issue isn't named well enough to see the whole picture. Am I wrong here? -- Glenn English hand-wrapped from my Apple Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c6c053c-9873-4e61-8e8c-bb98ec819...@slsware.com