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Economically speaking there is no difference between losing money and not making money, but socially there's a clear distinction. You're not automatically indeb
by algorias 14y ago
Economically speaking there is no difference between losing money and not making money, but socially there's a clear distinction. You're not automatically indebted to someone just because they built something you want. No value is lost when a digital good is duplicated. The only thing lost in this case is an opportunity.
>The rationale that someone wouldn't buy it anyway doesn't hold when the argument is that they want it so much they can't wait for it.
The point is that customers wouldn't buy the show under the conditions it's currently offered to them anyway.
- waterlesscloud 14y ago" No value is lost when a digital good is duplicated. The only thing lost in this case is an opportunity." I know this is a popular justification for piracy, but surely you can see that a lost opportunity is in fact lost value.
- masklinn 14y ago> a lost opportunity is in fact lost value. I know this is a popular justification for curtailing liberties, but surely you can see that this makes no actual sense.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoSo now it's "curtailing liberties" to ask someone to pay for value they are provided. Right.
- masklinn 14y agoYou seem to have no issue ascribing ideas they have never written to people who reply to your comments. I therefore assume (and assumed) you are in full and complete agreement with the various *AA over the handling of piracy. Including but not limited to rights-restriction, network monitoring, traffic shaping and mass legal threats. Also, your comment was idiotic and I was spinning it the other way 'round to demonstrate this.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoYour assumptions are completely incorrect. I support none of those things. I do support content creators being compensated in the manner and amounts they choose to ask. These are different things.