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Big business vs the little guy is extremely unfair these days. If I had given away 6000 free mp3s or movies via a P2P system you can bet they'd try me in court
by mindstab 15y ago
Big business vs the little guy is extremely unfair these days. If I had given away 6000 free mp3s or movies via a P2P system you can bet they'd try me in court for the full price of them all, but in this article already they are equivocating saying "oh but they were free, less people would have paid for it so he can't realistically ask for all the money for all the copies we gave away".
How come when a big company gets "ripped off" they can charge far more than the retail price for every copy but when the actual creator gets ripped off he gets nothing and people equivocate on even the numbers?
- bad_user 15y agoI thought HN was good at math: lim(number_of_lawyers) = 0 USD payed 1 -> infinite
- slowpoke 15y agoYou just described the problem of copyright as a whole: it was never designed for the little guy - as the popular myth goes (guess who is spreading that). It was invented by and for publishers (aka the big business), not for authors. That was true in the 16th century when the first ancestor of modern copyright was instated in England, if didn't change with the Statue of Annette, and isn't any different today, either.