Scott F. Wrote: > ... > You go to work as a salesman every day, all day, week in and week out. > You get paid for the fruits of your labors. At the end of the year you > always get a nice commission check for recurring sales generated buy > your new sales and previous work. All of a sudden you find out that you > are no longer going to get commissions owed to you because it has been > hijacked by some guy (or guys) over in Russia. They found some way to > stiff you out of your rightfully earned commissions for sales made. > Worst part is its not just one years commissions, it is forevermore. > And to add insult to injury you now have scads of people cheering in > the bacground all across the world asking for (and recieving) the way > to help themselves to the work you produced further reducing your > commissions. Soon they ALL begin taking advantage of this same security > breach that reduces your commissions. To add insult to injury, before > this all began you told everybody (in writing) that you didn't want > your works to be reproduced and placed on the Internet because you were > afraid someone would steal it. > ...
would it be fair and economically feasible if that salesperson received a commission on the sales that his customers made? if he then got those commissions for almost 100 years AFTER he died? even if he left the company and another saleperson took over his accounts and managed them? what if the customers had to get written permission from the salesperson before any and all new transactions? i will leave the multiple examples of riaa/consumer lawsuits and the saleperson analogy to your imagination. 1) copyright law is broken almost entirely and we are in danger of watching our culture stagnate and we have handed the future over to corporate america to dictate what, when, where and how long we can enjoy a work. for evidence see drm, hdcp, hd-dvd, pvp-opm, etc etc. 2) we have, and are, creating an environment where EVERYONE is in perpetual violation of copyright law - ask the russians how they felt under the soviet regime. i am also pro-artist but i also believe that many of them are complicit in the destruction of public rights. i also believe many of them are living in a fantasy world if they think they can extract the same profits margins as the greater world market opens up. don't expect a household in china to pay $15 bucks for a cd. when major labels start installing hidden software on my personal computer and that software makes my personal systems vulnerable in terms of stability and security well they can just go pound sand. the marketplace has made it quite obvious how they want their music and the industry has stalled and told us how wrong we are and then started to make us into criminals. how sorry do i feel for an artist who signed a contract with the likes of these corporations? no not very sorry. it seems many artists and companies have been able to make some money by actually addressing consumer wants without making them into criminals. see mangatunes, pandora, and cdbaby for a few examples of proconsumer and proartist policies. i guess my point is that if you decide to make me into a criminal by asserting my personal rights don't be surprised if my perceived value of your work is diminished. we've seen where this cycle has led so far - will the artists rise up and change the future? -- jackaninny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jackaninny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=273 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
