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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Wrong. The common man decides, with his wallet. When he buys into something that is culturally, environmentally, or even technologically damaging, simply because it's cheap, he is deciding foolishly. When he refuses to buy until he sees what he wants, and pays for quality, he is acting smartly. Cheap doesn't make right, any more than might makes right. Any good consumer knows you get what you pay for.
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If I may quote myself from the post - "If I can make it, then which either costs less, or is better quality? I pick accordingly." It doesn't mean that I automatically pick cheap, or quality. It means I place a economic choice on the spectrum cheap vs quality.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
U.S. consumers bought into a non-sustainable credit lifestyle, polluting vehicles, sweat-shop products and mindless pop media, all in the name of the god Cheap... and today, it's costing us. Now consumers are doing their level best to drive e-books over the same cliff by opposing copyright reform, security and compensation (in favor of, in order, none, none and none). And so far, no one has offered anything other than a few Age of Aquarius-style platitudes to suggest how an e-book market can actually work without any of those things, in what is still an economy-driven politically-motivated world.
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We created that lifestyle though
technology. But technology never stays the same, it
changes. And there are
losers in the change, and well as winners. Look what happened to silent film actors who had lousy voices when talkies came out. Technology destroyed their economic earning power. Should we have killed sound to protect them? The computer has effectively killed copyright. Shall we kill the computer to keep copyright intact? Who knows what tommorrow's changes will obsolete. All I know it, it
will obsolete something. And somebody is going to lose because of it.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The world may not "guarantee" me a fair royalty for my work. But I can dicker with that. If, however, the world tells me "we're just going to take whatever you create and pay you nothing, whether you like it or not," it's not worth my while to create anything for a world like that.
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From an economic standpoint, you're probably right. On the other hand, 95 percent of business started fail within 5 years. Is creating copyright product immune to this reality?