Alas, even with physical media, the cost of production was a small part of the cost of goods. You could do short-run LP production for $1 each, for example, and even adding a printed sleeve came nowhere near the typical sale prices.
Sent from my iPad On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Duncan Bayne <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, it is more like the people objecting to enclosed shops, where >> pilfering is much harder then when the same goods are sold from open >> stalls in a market. > > That would have been a good analogy twenty years ago. When physical > media were still used, one could actually steal content. I'd take your > copy - or, more precisely, the disc upon which it resided - and you'd be > less one copy yourself. That's theft. > > Nowadays, technological improvements mean that I can make a copy of your > media, with perfect fidelity. You haven't lost anything - you still > have the original - and I've gained, say, some music. This simply isn't > theft by any reasonable use of the term. > > It can be other things. Copyright violation, for example. Manifestly > unfair, if it leads to artists not being paid for their time. But > theft? Not really. > > -- > Duncan Bayne > ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype: > duncan_bayne > > I usually check my mail every 24 - 48 hours. If there's something > urgent going on, please send me an SMS or call me at the above number.
