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Ian Clarke's points (I agree more with him than I do with you, my friend, but you make good points). JMR
its babble, not worth responding too, Jim!
The "babble" seems to be backed-up by some math in this case, JP. Property that can be duplicated anywhere isn't like other forms of property, so the law tends to treat it differently.
See my other posts for responses.
Well, you might want to check Professor Lessig's history of Mickey Mouse before using him as an example anymore, as that history pretty-much rips-up Disney et-al's current arguments, since Mickey HIMSELF is a derivative work, a take-off on "Steamboat Willie"? which was NEVER Disney's idea in the beginning. Something that can be duplicated hundreds of times this afternoon just isn't like an acre of land at the mouth of the Miami River, which is why the RIAA will eventually lose in their current PR-destroying lawsuit-frenzy. (It's also why they and the rappers should have listened to JMR long ago, because I am the guy who could have saved "Napster" with efficient e-gold tips, in 1999) before they overpaid an army of lawyers. The last time this happened to music was radio -- and ASCAP etc. solved the problem, while paying musicians. An average tip for any decent song would WAY surpass the average money a musician gets out of the RIAA quintopoly from an entire 2-disk CD-set, and everyone knows it.
Now, would my proposed solution of e-gold tips cause a lot of lawyers and unproductive RIAA middlemen to have to go looking for other work? Absolutely, but there is nothing wrong with buggy-whip unemployment when something like an auto industry (or e-gold) appears, so I make no apologies for threatening their jobs. If they are this slow to adapt their business models, they're gonna die a slow, painful death -- with my help!
"Evolution in action," as I always say. Voluntary will finally supplant coercive, and the anyone who thinks voluntary means "can't work to support music" has probably never been a Dead concert (the freeEST free- markets I've ever seen were outside two Grateful Dead concerts I attended in Florida). Think about it: Why isn't there a coin-slot on every water-fountain? (This logic applies to for-pay wireless "hotspots" too! There's SO much free access about that they have a hopeless business-model, IMO!). Sometimes, it can makes sense to give stuff away and politely ask for tips.
all property is intellectual property, there is no otherd kind...
!? The law seems to disagree. Intellectual property has evolved as duplication-technology has supplanted it (see Gutenburg, etc. on). Generally, the law stays about fifty years or so behind the tech, which is one of the reasons why this debate seems never-ending. The question the RIAA got 100% wrong was trying to use karate when they should have been using judo. Napster, much as they all hated it, was a centralized thing. Kazaa and Freenet are not, and therefore can't/won't be killed, but they'd have never evolved in the first place without the shortsighted attack on Napster. JMR
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