Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/03/05 19:07

"bo peep" wrote ...
> <<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.

You clearly don't understand how the *New (im)Morality* works.
(Neither do I.)

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