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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Do you believe that creative people have no right to make money from their work? Do you believe that you, as a consumer, have no responsibility to compensate an artist, not even a dime, for a work you obtain? Do you, as a consumer, believe that you and you alone should have the final say on what someone else deserves to make from their work?
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Speaking of semantics, I would appreciate it if you did not take my words out of context (I was addressing someone who was trying to apply the unique-physical-copy-of-something structure to the digital age and I was arguing we should look at usage count), okay? Thanks.
As for what I believe, I do believe the author should be compensated. Not the entire information control structure that has grown fat around them, which brings us right back to square one - the system is broken.
Also, consumers ultimately decide what people make from their work - we call this free market, supply and demand, and so forth.