> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 13:45:38 -0400 > From: Mac Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 5/27/03 1:24 PM, "Eric D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One last thought on this whole matter -- no one has a *right* to make money >> off something or someone. The ability to make money off other people is a >> privilege granted to people by other people in society. > > If others use the fruits of your labor or your product, then you have a > right to be compensated for it. There is no way around this.
'zactly, however, the fact that it's not by-and-large the indy artists that are suffering from P2P I feel *nothing* for the ones who *are* willing to associate themselves with corrupt corporations and business practices. Gouging of customers predated P2P by many, many years. P2P was the leveller. >> Unreasonable use of >> such privileges should be punished and punished heavily. If it means >> bankruptcies, so be it. > > I don't know where you're trying to go with this. But, if you don't like it > DON'T BUY IT -- and don't steal it. I would argue that it's in SOCIETY'S best interest to weed out unethical business practices. Good corporate citizenship should be rewarded. But, our economic system pits corporations against citizens -- corps seek to get as much money out of people and they seek to get something for as little as possible. It's a fair balance. However, in all of this one needs to remember that a corporation is granted the *privilege* to do business with citizens. Poor corporate citizenship needs to be dealt with, and if government cannot do it, then the marketplace must. We've seen how difficult it is with a monopoly like MicroSerf -- they have undeniably behaved as a monopoly and *abused* that monopoly power. What's happened? Nothing, not even a slap on the wrist. > Also, if the music is good enough for you to keep, don't you think that it > is fair to pay the piper (et al)? If the music is "worthless", then I dare > everybody to delete them from their drives, right now. You seem to imply that I have such music on my drives, don't you? A thought that I had on this is that philosophically I find copyright problematic. As someone involved in academia the notion of proprietary content is offensive and alien. You should be compensated sufficiently to distribute your creation but nothing more. The idea is to get something new out to as many people as possible, and, more importantly, whoever *wants* your creation -- information is meant to be free and *freely* (not free as in $0) accessible. If it is not freely accessible there's a problem. Of course, there's the flipside that you can argue that copyright encourages creation. Perhaps, but if you can't use prior work (i.e. a copyright that essentially nullifies the business and creative practices that built up the current media empires) you end up with an endless stream of Britneys and canned corporate crap. Anyway, just my $0.35 (deflation ;) worth. -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Educational discounts are now available Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
