Re: [OS:N:] Who should control which IP, was: Questionaire about ...

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 19:24:31 at 07:24:31PM -0700, Paul ([email protected]) wrote:

> The comment I made in does not suggest that the author has no
> rights...  I was suggesting that the indivisibility requires a
> new pricing structure for the sale of ideas (books, Mp3 whatever)
> online.  Not a total loss of author rights.

OK

> Don't illude yourself: most people simply don't bother with all the
> cultured and subtle distinctions we are enjoing here lately about
> tangible and not tangible goods, etc..."
> 
> LOL, yeah you are right there (about the subtle distinctions part)! 
> 
> I'm not sure that refusing to acknowledge a hotly contested legislative
> monopoly immediately categorizes someone as immature though..?

To boycott is "refusing to aknowledge a monopoly" at least as much as
downloading copyright protected music. The first solution would work
quite quickly; the second,in the years since Napster first came, only
made the RIAA stronger, and is adopted because requires no thinking or
self discipline. Hence, yes, I immediately categorize *that* strategy
(*not* the "refusal...") as immature.

> I'm sure there are a number of reasons that people infringe IP including
> the fact that some people simply do not acknowledge it as a valid
> notion.

I'm sure that this is the case with Stallman and a tiny minority who
actually stopped to think,that the kids downloaded music just
because it was possible, and that when somebody was dumb (or RIAA
sponsored) enough to ask "Did you do it to assert the complete non
existence of IP?" they said "Uh? Who? The non existence of
what?...Kinda...Yeah. Right. Whatever"

> I have a sneaky suspicion the fact that over 40% of Americans have
> downloaded Mp3s (Pew Internet statistics 2000)(and are criminals by
> definition) could be at least partially attributed to the
> Individualistic nature of our societies in the 21st century.  

Thanks for the excellent excuse for a 50 pages dissertation on the
common points between individualism and immaturity. I'll pass, though.
 
> Either that or 100 million plus Americans are immature?

See? Toldya... It's not just americans, of course, they just happen to
do things first quite often.

> And lets not forget about all of the cassette dubbing/floppy dosk
> swapping that went down in the 80's :o

Everything we said applies to that period "as is", they just never
bothered to react because analog media degrades after just a few copy
cycles.

	Ciao,
		Marco

-- 
Marco Fioretti                 m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it
Red Hat for low memory         http://www.rule-project.org/en/

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