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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You're putting words into my mouth with that. And it's not about "business" it's about culture in the first instance. A culture freed from ridiculous copyright that stifles innovation and benefits only the corporations, not the creatives. What I'm saying, and I feel like I'm repeating myself here, is that I have no qualms about others sharing these works because I see the benefits of such sharing (as I've pointed out ad infinitum) both in cultural terms and monetary terms. For me there is no downside to this sharing.
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Still not entirely sure how this is any different to saying "I see this other way as being better therefore if you continue to use the old way(as is your right and your choice) then I have no problem with obtaining a copy of your work without compensating you for it".(or others can gain a copy without compensation)
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
These authors can choose to ignore the way the world is moving, but it's to their own detriment. They're part of an old system that is on shaky ground, a system that no matter how much legislation, how much enforcement you place upon it, is not sustainable in the face of the digital era. Creative Commons addresses that imbalance and levels the creator/audience relationship.
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Agreed, but it is the ground that they choose to be on. So, sorry to say it, I again don't see how an author making a choice to be on this shaky ground should give anyone the right to obtain a copy of their work without compensating them for it.(right as in it is not in any way wrong for them do this)
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
If you really, truly cared about the author's getting fair recompense your annoyance wouldn't be targeted toward file-sharers and instead go toward the mega-corp publishing houses that pay their authors miniscule advances and terribly low percentages on the sales thereafter. If you want to talk about morals, then maybe we should talk about the morals of the companies who treat their authors as nothing more than chattel?
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Abolutely, but two wrongs don't really make a right do they?
Maybe we are both repeating ourselves because I keep coming back to the fact that if this is how an author chooses to go about his/her business, how does that choice give anyone the right to obtain a copy of their work without compensating them for it?
And anyway, I really only came back into this thread in order to ask the question I have already asked, in order to try to get an answer as to whether people really felt "file sharing" was wrong or simply justified. It is clear to me from the continued responses(and in some cases lack of responses) that people know it to be wrong but feel it is justified for a variety of reasons.
Cheers,
PKFFW