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Originally Posted by Horemheb
This is just outright mathematical nonsense. Currently the cost of content is:
Cost1 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher + Retailer
If Apple succeeds in his unethical (and possibly illegal) plan then the cost of content will be:
Cost2 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher + Retailer + Apple
Simple math tells us Cost1 < Cost2 .........................
That is right, they want to make money. A sane and healthy society however will nevel let anyone to extort money from people and other organizations with nothing provided in turn. There are lot of companies who try to make money without providing anything useful to the society and there are ones even doing damage to society. They need to be stopped however this is obvious.
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Let us see if this is 'simple' enough for you...
Mama and Papa have two children. Every Sunday Mama makes pie. Mama, Papa, and their two children eat the whole pie. One day Grandma comes to live with Mama, Papa, and their two children. On Sunday Mama makes pie in the SAME PAN she always used. Mama, Papa, their two children AND Grandma eat the whole pie.
See how simple that was? Five are now sharing what used to be shared by four. Some may now get a little less, but everyone still gets SOME.
"The Society"? There is no ONE society. And who is to decide what is dangerous and what companies should be stopped? Do you feel qualified to make these decisions? Just for yourself or for everyone else? Will you alone be making these decisions or perhaps you and like-minded others?
Perhaps these decision making positions would be best filled with people who aren't baffled by 'simple' mathematical concepts like division.
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Originally Posted by Horemheb
Facts are never outdated.
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If this were true we would all be relying on the 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica. What this statement really shows is that you are only capable of thinking in a black/white, yes/no, right/wrong manner.
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Originally Posted by Horemheb
I think based upon these kinds of comments by now it is obvious that you are no normal customer. You are sales rep / agitprop agent / other interested party of Apple. And I am being generous here. The other explanation for quoting propaganda lines would be very embarassing for you.  |
Yes, you've done this before. When your incessant droning about ethics, lack of value, and the evils of corporations fail to sway, you resort to name calling. And not even new names, but the same names, over and over again. Even in rudeness you are nothing more than a repetitive bore.
And what about you? What value have you offered? Other than repeating the same opinion for some thirty-odd posts, what new thoughts or viewpoints have you brought? None. Why? You simply don't have the intelligence that is required to consider someone else's opinion and respond to it. Like most children, you apply human emotions to non-human entities because the concept of 'living' versus 'existing' is foreign to you. You repeat what you have heard with an incessant force, because it is all that you know and you are incapable of thinking for yourself.
You throw about accusations of other people propagandizing while crying about the evils and ethics of corporations and what benefits 'the society'. While I certainly have no expectation that you be self-aware do you at least see the irony?
How very embarrassing for you.