Posted by bo peep on 11/03/05 18:29

<<you don't need the lost income anyway>>

There is a fatal flaw in your logic...

For any given combination of author and product and market at a point
in time, there is some number of free accesses to that product that
would eventually maximize the author's income from that work. However,
*you* simply don't have the right to select, on behalf of the author,
without his permission, the number of those free accesses to be
allowed. The author is not obliged to derive maximum income from the
product, nor is he even obliged to derive any income at all from the
product. Even if we disregard the financial consequences, it is simply
none of your business.

John Cowart

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