01-19-2006, 05:57 PM
Doc,Jan 19 2006, 12:36 PM Wrote:...That is the bottom line.
Once again, I have no problem paying for something. I want to pay for things. I just want my money going to the right place and I don't want to have to worry about being reamed over something.
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You may not like the RIAA, or Hollywood, or Microsoft. But, if you don't pay the originators for their products, then you are either paying the wrong person, or paying nothing. If you are paying nothing, then many others are paying nothing as well supporting the world's counterfeit economy.
How fair is it that lawful companies pay Microsoft hundreds of thousands for software licensing, while non-lawful competitors pay nothing. Can they compete equally? The problem with the internet is that it is not a US only thing. That latest Album or DVD gets ripped, transmitted over Limewire and burned a million times in China.
You certainly are not a corporation, but as an individual you need to look at effort and value. What is your effort worth? Since the US is a nation of patent and copyright laws that are enforced, in the world of free (meaning costing zero) flowing knowledge we find ourselves at a huge disadvantage. So when you (and a million others) use Limewire rather than pay the originator for a product what would be the result?
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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