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Old 12-07-2007, 11:07 AM   #130
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Originally Posted by mrkai View Post
Its time for Plan B.

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If a person who would otherwise have bought it has instead downloaded it, that is lost income for the author.
And what is the...measure...for determining if they *would have bought it* exactly? Its not a matter of if or not they would have bought it...its a matter of if or not they have it.

Again *Potential revenue* is not revenue lost. Its fiat economics, and unless you are a government, that kind of accounting puts you in a prison somewhere

How do we get the money? have you (and I mean you personally this time as opposed to the collective "you") actually ever given any thought to solving *that* problem?
There is no "plan B." Either the creator has rights or he doesn't. There is no compromise. No matter what business model is devised, it will devolve into an arms race between rights holders and rights violators--between those who create and those who want the benefits of that creation without paying for it (good grief, I'm sounding all Objectivist, here).

Hell, I gave people free access to a novel and still had the copyright violated. Why was it violated? Because reading on the Web just wasn't convenient enough for some folks.
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