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"If I take an microphone from you, you don't have an microphone." ..and so I have to buy a new one if we both want to have one at the same time. "If I copy a
by reinhardt 15y ago
"If I take an microphone from you, you don't have an microphone."
..and so I have to buy a new one if we both want to have one at the same time.
"If I copy a song from you, you still have the song yourself."
Awesome, we can just buy one then and split the cost! But why stop there? Let's also give a copy to Tom, Dick and Harry so that each pays 20%! Now, what if we could somehow share the song and the cost with a hundred million people across the world..
- ThomPete 15y agoIf I buy a microphone I can borrow it and give it to whoever I want to. In fact I can chip in and share it with 200 friends if I want to. You see the difference?
- reinhardt 15y agoI do, do you? Microphone sharing (a) means only one person at a time can access it and (b) it is way more inconvenient. Microphone creators are not threatened by sharing, digital creators are.
- ThomPete 15y agoIf someone steals 20 microphones from the mic creator he has 20 microphones less. If someone downloads 20 songs from a song creator the creator of that song still has the song. That is the difference.
- peterhost 15y agoAnd say, with your wife and children ? Would you share it with them or make them pay too ? And when you listen to the music, streaming, with friends at a party you throw, do they all have to pay ?