If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[mary]

I enjoyed reading it.  What a long thread, wow!
STEAL EVERYTHING that does not measure 12 x 12
no, I am not serious
I enjoyed posting it though

On 3/25/09, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Albert Bouchard writes:
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> > So I guess you think it's OK to steal music? What about other stuff?
> > My 2 cents…
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> In fact my views on this will surprise many, since I actually do
> advocate communism on this issue.
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> I believe the tech will for the forseeable future be such that piracy of
> movies/music/books is going to be possible and indeed easy. So how do we
> organise things so that punters can easily download what they want when
> they want, and still arrange for the originators/promoters to be paid?
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> The same problem came up with radio broadcasting and we came up with the
> whole Performing Rights arrangements.
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> With computer networks, we can apply the same model in a better way:
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> Charge, through network access providers, each and every denizen of the
> interweb, one Dollar per week for access.  For that they get access to
> everything.  Use the web itself to count accesses and then distribute the
> cash in some way proportional to what's popular and what it cost to
> produce and distribute it. Something along those lines would ensure that
> folks do get paid for creative endeavour while ensuring that the punters
> can get what they want as and when they want it.
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> Of course, as with the BBC Licence Fee, the entertainment industries
> would thereafter constantly be in a political battle to try to get the
> user fee increased in order to have more pie to share out.  Those sorts
> of battles though have to be better than fights in Court to sue their
> own fans into bankruptcy.
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> So there you have it: this libertarian wants some communism.
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