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sirbruce · 06-03-2009, 02:57 PM

We're getting way off-track by semantics that are now completely out of context.

I was asked, specifically, "So why do you use terms like "compensated fairly"". Such a question is entirely within the context of compensating fairly the copyright holders, authors, and publishers. It's not about what a consumer thinks is a just price.

If a consumer, or an external government, can take the authors work by force and decide themselves what the compensation should be, such a compensation cannot be "fair" in the same sense of the word, since it's not a transaction that both parties agreed to. To a certain extent, the government's right of Imminent Domain can be said to offer "fair" compensation, but that's pretty much the definition of being outside the free market and thus Capitalism.

06-03-2009, 02:57 PM	#84
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	We're getting way off-track by semantics that are now completely out of context. I was asked, specifically, "So why do you use terms like "compensated fairly"". Such a question is entirely within the context of compensating fairly the copyright holders, authors, and publishers. It's not about what a consumer thinks is a just price. If a consumer, or an external government, can take the authors work by force and decide themselves what the compensation should be, such a compensation cannot be "fair" in the same sense of the word, since it's not a transaction that both parties agreed to. To a certain extent, the government's right of Imminent Domain can be said to offer "fair" compensation, but that's pretty much the definition of being outside the free market and thus Capitalism.