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Originally Posted by bingle
See, I'm not convinced. I think the tide is such that information *will* be free, one way or another, and rather than trying to force people to pay for it directly, we need to find a new way to encourage authorship.
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That's what copyright laws are for! And yes, for the record: If I couldn't make money off of my books, they wouldn't be on my website right now. Why bother? I'll just go back to my HTML job, and find some other way to amuse myself.
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Originally Posted by bingle
The fact of the matter is, people are too shortsighted to do things like pay for a movie in order to keep the studio around in a few years, when they can get the film for free, now. It just won't ever happen. In the face of that, the studio needs to make the hard decisions about how they're going to keep alive while people distribute their movie for free.
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Since when are movies free? They're not even free on broadcast television... advertisers pay for them, buying their entertainment and letting you see it to help sell their soap.