Re: sticking finger in the fan... (Re: www.babylon5scripts.com now online)

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:50:13 +0000 (UTC), Mox Fulder
<alvaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:19:07 +0000 (UTC), Wendy of NJ <voxwoman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>[...]
>> To get really nit picky about this: Libraries aren't free -- they're
>> paid for out of municipal funds, which are funded by local property
>> taxes, state tax revenues (including income and sales taxes) and
>> federal tax revenues. Just because you aren't paying per use, doesn't
>> mean you aren't paying for it.
>
>Good point.
>
>We are also paying the record companies even if we never buy their CDs,
>because they receive a percentage of all sales of blank media.
>
>[...]
>> And just to get back to radio airplay for one moment: advertisers pay
>> the radio stations, so that listeners can listen for "free" but the
>> actual cost of the advertising is passed along to the consumer as part
>> of the price for whatever is being advertised. So, listeners pay for
>> radio, too. Just not directly.
>
>Which makes the word "free" meaningless.
>
>[...]
>> It's not the only "evil". Artists nowadays, because there are MP3s and
>> the ability to deliver content to a global audience independent of the
>> historical distribution channels (i.e. big labels/big distributors),
>> *for the first time in history* actually HAVE a shot of being able to
>> support themselves by providing content on the Internet. Having
>> someone else rip off your stuff and let others download without your
>> consent denies these artists the right for compensation for fair use.
>
>I know that's the mantra, but there's a missing link in that argument. The
>argument that all "free downloads" deprive an artist of income *requires*
>the _unprovable_ assumption that the artist is losing a transaction. In
>reality, larger distribution is followed by larger business/income. No,
>this is not a 1-to-1 proposition. e.g., you give your CD for free to 10
>people, and some of them are *not* going to buy anything else of
>yours--but some *will*. You give your CD for free to 100,000,000 people,
>and your income will be larger than it would be if you used Sony's
>"copy-protection" spyware, which can disable your computer and open it
>to hackers, and is now on its way to court.
>
>Of course, you can tell me distribution is the artist's decision, as the
>copyright holder, and I would agree with you. We have no argument there.
>What I find irrational and unsopported by facts, is the automatic
>assumption that one "free download" equals one lost transaction, which is
>what the hysteria is all about.

No. That's not what I'm "hysterical" about (and I'm "passionate" about
this, rather than hysterical in any case). It's not the people
downloading that burn my cookies, but the people who *make the content
available FOR downloading* because they do NOT have the permission of
the copyright holder to do so.

There's a difference between what I choose to distribute freely (of my
creations) and someone else DECIDING to do it for me without my
consent.

I'm not going to blame the 3 year olds for eating the candy corn, but
I can certainly blame the person who set the bowl of candy corn out
for the 3 year olds to eat.

-Wendy


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