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Posted by Bob on 11/05/05 22:06
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 13:45:06 -0500, "SBFan2000"
<weareborgNOSP#M@wcnet.org> wrote:
>One, if in fact you don't copyright infringe then I apoligize for implying
>you did. Based on your posts, what conclusion was I suppose to come to?
You are supposed to know I am a Jesuitical Heathen.
>If fact, I don't really care who does or doesn't infringe on copyrights as
>long as its not mine :-), its not my business. What is annoying is when
>people that do infringe make up these magicical reasons why its not
>stealing.
That's because it is not stealing. It is infringement. When someone
copies a copyrighted piece, the owner of the copyright has lost
nothing - nothing has been taken. You might argue that he has lost the
opportunity to make money from the sale of his item, but that assumes
that the pirate would buy it if he was unable to pirate it.
People who are capable of buying something usually do not pirate it.
Pirates are those who are not capable of buying the item, so it is
extremely unlikely that they won't buy it if it is otherwise
unavailable.
Now here's the real irony of this whole stupid thing. A large software
company named Borland produced a copyrighted Pascal Compiler called
Turbo Pascal. But they did not enforce the copyright, and actually
made it available to college student free of charge. Others were
required to pay for it.
Borland was able to sell *more* copies of Turbo Pascal by that genius
marketing strategy for the same reason IBM was able to sell more
computers by giving the major universities new computers free.
It was noted that during the heyday of Napster sales of music actually
increased, and when Napster was shut down, sales fell off noticably.
Here's the reason why all of the above is possible. By having more
copies of something in the market more people buy it than would
otherwise. If you never heard an album and I pirate it and play it for
you, and you want the official album for yourself - and you can afford
to buy it - then you likely will buy it. I have acted as a free
advertisement by playing the pirated copy and enticed my friend to buy
it.
The idiot lawyers, in their consumate greed, actually screwed up sales
by tampering with the natural behavior of markets.
--
"The scientist is possessed by a rapturous amazement at the
harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such
superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking
and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
"This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work,
in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles
of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that
which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages."
--Albert Einstein
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