Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 04/05/2006 hora 20:40: > The infrastructure I was talking about is internet and broadband > connections.
Then you voluntarily ignore a very crucial part of the infrastructure. You just can't say ``the part of the infrastructre I'm OK to consider will cost zero''. > I'm saying that it shouldn't be paid _per copy_ I agree. > because counting the number of copies is hardly possible I think it's one of the baddest reasons, though. > and it's simply not desirable to put a penalty on copying, because > that's what it effectively means to ask money per copy Then I agree again. I'm also thinking that putting a penalty on copying is bad. But I also think it is the right of the author (that's why it is called copyright) to put that penalty. If you don't want to suffer the penalty, avoid his work. Sometimes the work is hard to avoid, like for academics manuals. If you think it is a very bad situation that you don't have the right to hand a copy of a needed book to another student, then work on with universities and professors so that they put policies on manual publication. They definitely can when the work is done with univiersity's money. We have some work in this direction in France, where mathematics professors are writing, collaboratively, free manuals, as in free speech. Again, no need to force free publication. I bet some parents and schools will just prefer the free (as in free beer) manual, and many professors will like that it is free (as in free speech) when they need to derivate from it. No need to fight evil, just make something good. (in this case, though; I really think some evil must me fought, and active defense makes sense in a lot of situations) Freely, Nowhere man -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A
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