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Old 01-30-2012, 02:43 PM   #62
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
Well, for one, it's impossible to legitimately own a visual performance of Wicked in ANY format. The bootleg recordings are the only versions. Hence the relevance to the discussion. This isn't about format-shifting.

And, yes, I do consider the denial of that service to be a significant impact on people's lives. It's a beautiful and moving piece of work that has had tremendous impact on many people. We cannot simultaneously claim on this board that art is so meaningful that authors MUST be cultivated (and to do otherwise would detriment society) and so meaningless that when an edition is denied to the disabled then they have lost nothing.

Art is either valuable or valueless. We cannot simultaneously hold that it is both.
Deductively you aren't making sense, as you are treating "art" as a monolithic sort of term. You're free to find other pieces of "beautiful and moving" work to consume in ways that are available to you in order to fill that void. Your statements incorrectly use Wicked as an entity embodying that beauty and power single-handedly.
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